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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 his letters on love, "Once we were ______ in every part, now we are that in one part only."
(a) Nature.
(b) Sex.
(c) Love.
(d) Children.

2. 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 Feminist Manifesto.
(c) The Woman's Life.
(d) Letters to a Young Poet.

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

4. 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) Sculpting.
(c) Teaching.
(d) Letter-writing.

5. Rilke's letters are examples of what?
(a) Irony.
(b) Prose.
(c) Verisimilitude.
(d) Verse.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

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

4. Who does Rilke say is incapable of such loving as he calls for?

5. What did the commentator originally call the selections of Rilke's letters which he copied and gave out?

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