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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 accuse of vilifying sensuality and love?
(a) Mankind.
(b) Christianity.
(c) Womankind.
(d) The government.

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

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

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

5. Who does Rilke say is incapable of such loving as he calls for?
(a) Young people.
(b) Religious people.
(c) Virgins.
(d) Women.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

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

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

5. Rilke writes of love that "So whoever loves must try to act as if he had a _________."

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