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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Section 6.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Rilke advise the young poet to take comfort in if he feels uneasy in his new profession?
(a) Writing.
(b) Reading.
(c) Prayer.
(d) Solitude.

2. Why does Rilke delay so long in replying to the young poet's fifth letter?
(a) The young poet's fifth letter has angered Rilke.
(b) Rilke has been ill.
(c) Rilke does not like to write letters when he is traveling.
(d) Rilke leaves the young poet's letter in another city.

3. Who writes the poem Rilke encloses with his seventh letter?
(a) Kappus.
(b) Petrarch.
(c) Shakespeare.
(d) Rilke.

4. What does Rilke ask the young poet to do for him at the end of the first letter?
(a) Write a letter to the young poet's school informing the school of Rilke's success.
(b) Distribute Rilke's books to the young poet's friends.
(c) Visit his mother.
(d) Tell Professor Horacek of Rilke's esteem for him.

5. What type of sadness does Rilke call "dangerous"?
(a) Sadnesses that are caused by helplessness.
(b) Sadnesses that are caused by love.
(c) Sadnesses that are caused by feelings of inferiority.
(d) Sadnesses that one suppresses rather than lives.

Short Answer Questions

1. To what does Rilke compare humans' misunderstanding of destiny in letter eight?

2. What is the young poet's military rank?

3. What does Rilke say about everything that is serious?

4. In letter eight, what does Rilke tell the young poet he must be careful with?

5. What does Rilke send to the young poet in reply to the poet's first letter?

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