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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. Rilke writes in his letters on love, "Once we were ______ in every part, now we are that in one part only."
(a) Nature.
(b) Love.
(c) Sex.
(d) Children.

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

3. What does the commentator say was Rilke's mode of exploration during "the long periods between his well-known great creative bursts of energy"?
(a) Sculpting.
(b) Painting.
(c) Teaching.
(d) Letter-writing.

4. In what year was Rilke born?
(a) 1899.
(b) 1875.
(c) 1800.
(d) 1919.

5. What does Rilke write is a simplification of one's way of life?
(a) Sex.
(b) Love.
(c) Marriage.
(d) Forgiveness.

Short Answer Questions

1. The commentator regards that Rilke's "justly famed deep spirituality" is rooted essentially in what?

2. According to Rilke, there is "scarcely anything more difficult" than what?

3. What does Rilke write that he holds to be "the highest task of a bond between two people"?

4. Rilke writes in his letters, "Why have they made our sex _______, instead of making it the place for the festival of our competency?"

5. What does Rilke accuse of vilifying sensuality and love?

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