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

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

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

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

5. In the excerpt of Rilke's letter in the Introduction, what essay does he refer to reading?
(a) Plato's Symposium.
(b) Platos' Cave.
(c) Homer's Odyssey.
(d) Cicero's Symposium.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Who is one of the earliest figures of feminism who was friends with Rilke?

3. From what language has the author translated the poems and prose excerpts of "Rilke on Love and Other Difficulties"?

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

5. In what year was Rilke born?

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