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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Section 4.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In what year is Rilke's second letter composed?
(a) 1905.
(b) 1908.
(c) 1903.
(d) 1902.

2. Why has Rilke come to the place where he composes the fourth letter?
(a) To write in solitude.
(b) To improve his health.
(c) To meet with his publisher.
(d) To visit his family.

3. In what year does Rilke write the fourth letter?
(a) 1912.
(b) 1905.
(c) 1908.
(d) 1903.

4. What does Rilke say about Professor Horacek in his first letter?
(a) That the professor helps to nurse Rilke back to health as a boy.
(b) That the professor is a great scholar.
(c) That the professor is a great poet.
(d) That he holds admiration and gratitude for the professor.

5. What is Rilke's salutation at the end of the first letter?
(a) "Warmest regards."
(b) "With gratitude and happiness."
(c) "Yours faithfully and with all sympathy."
(d) "Yours faithfully."

Short Answer Questions

1. Near the close of the fourth letter, Rilke mentions the positive aspects of the young poet's new profession. What are those positive aspects?

2. In what year does Rilke write the fifth letter?

3. How does Rilke suggest one knows if one should not be a poet?

4. What does Rilke ask the young poet to do for him at the end of the first letter?

5. What does Rilke tell the young poet to rejoice in?

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