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

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

3. In Rilke's first letter he suggests to the reader to "resolve to be always" what?
(a) Beginning.
(b) Failing.
(c) Trying.
(d) Ending.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Rilke suggest that the young are apt to do in love?

2. Rilke's letters are examples of what?

3. Rilke is regarded in his letters and his writing to be distinctly ahead of his time in what respect?

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

5. What is the only novel that Rilke wrote?

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