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

2. What did the commentator originally call the selections of Rilke's letters which he copied and gave out?
(a) "Notes on Love."
(b) "Rilke on Love."
(c) "The Love Letters."
(d) "Letters of Love."

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

4. What does Rilke comment in the excerpt from the Introduction that Eros "cannot be"?
(a) Ugly.
(b) Joyful.
(c) Faithful.
(d) Fair.

5. In the Prologue, who does the commentator say is the other of the two greatest writers of the twentieth century?
(a) F. Scott Fitzgerald.
(b) Samuel Beckett.
(c) James Joyce.
(d) Ernest Hemingway.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What does the translator comment in the Prologue that his translations of Rilke are?

3. What does Rilke write is a simplification of one's way of life?

4. Rilke writes in one letter, "At bottom ______ can help anyone else in life."

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

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