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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 book of Simone de Beauvoir's does the commentator say led him to "militant feminism" in the Introduction to "Rilke's Letters on Love"?
(a) The Woman's Life.
(b) Letters to a Young Poet.
(c) The Second Sex.
(d) The Feminist Manifesto.

2. What does Rilke write in his first letter, imploring the reader to try to love?
(a) Dignity.
(b) The answers.
(c) The questions themselves.
(d) The truth.

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

4. Rilke is regarded in his letters and his writing to be distinctly ahead of his time in what respect?
(a) Feminism.
(b) Writing.
(c) Politics.
(d) Religion.

5. What is the only novel that Rilke wrote?
(a) Lessons of a Forgotten Soul.
(b) Letters to a Young Poet.
(c) The Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge.
(d) The Grapes of Wrath.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Who does Rilke say is incapable of such loving as he calls for?

3. In Rilke's first letter he suggests to the reader to "resolve to be always" what?

4. What does the commentator say was Rilke's mode of exploration during "the long periods between his well-known great creative bursts of energy"?

5. Rilke's letters are examples of what?

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