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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Prologue and Letters on Love.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In Rilke's first letter he suggests to the reader to "resolve to be always" what?
(a) Ending.
(b) Trying.
(c) Failing.
(d) Beginning.

2. What does Rilke suggest that the young are apt to do in love?
(a) Stand solitary.
(b) Give oneself away.
(c) Marry for money.
(d) Not listen to each other.

3. According to Rilke, there is "scarcely anything more difficult" than what?
(a) To love one another.
(b) To leave one's love.
(c) To stand alone.
(d) To birth a child.

4. Who does the commentator compare Rilke's relationship toward sex to in the Introduction?
(a) Fitzgerald.
(b) Norman Mailer.
(c) Robert Frost.
(d) Hemingway.

5. Rilke writes in one letter, "At bottom ______ can help anyone else in life."
(a) No one.
(b) Everyone.
(c) Men.
(d) Women.

Short Answer Questions

1. Rilke is regarded in his letters and his writing to be distinctly ahead of his time in what respect?

2. What does Rilke write in his first letter, imploring the reader to try to love?

3. What does Rilke comment in the excerpt from the Introduction that Eros "cannot be"?

4. Rilke remarks in his letters that his sex is "not directed only toward posterity" but is is what?

5. The commentator remarks in the Introduction, "It should be emphasized that Rilke's language is thoroughly _______."

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