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

2. Rilke writes in his letters, "Why have they made our sex _______, instead of making it the place for the festival of our competency?"
(a) Homeless.
(b) Loving.
(c) Dangerous.
(d) Carefree.

3. 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 Second Sex.
(b) The Woman's Life.
(c) The Feminist Manifesto.
(d) Letters to a Young Poet.

4. The commentator remarks in the Introduction, "It should be emphasized that Rilke's language is thoroughly _______."
(a) Dramatic.
(b) Narrow.
(c) Sensual.
(d) Explicit.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. In what year was Rilke born?

4. Rilke remarks in his letters that his sex is "not directed only toward posterity" but is is what?

5. Rilke's letters are examples of what?

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