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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 one letter, "Almost everything ______ is difficult, and everything is _______."
(a) Sexual.
(b) Love.
(c) Serious.
(d) Sensual.

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

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

4. From what language has the author translated the poems and prose excerpts of "Rilke on Love and Other Difficulties"?
(a) French.
(b) German.
(c) Bohemian.
(d) Austrian.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. Rilke writes in his letters on love, "Once we were ______ in every part, now we are that in one part only."

4. 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"?

5. Who does the commentator compare Rilke's relationship toward sex to in the Introduction?

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