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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 poet to do in regard to his efforts to get published?
(a) Send his poems to as many magazines as possible.
(b) Send his poems to Rilke's publisher.
(c) Discontinue his efforts to receive feedback from publishers and other external parties.
(d) Send his poems to the United States.

2. Who does Rilke say in the seventh letter cannot understand love?
(a) Anyone who is not an artist.
(b) Military officers.
(c) Young people.
(d) Children.

3. Where does Rilke say humans should look for lessons on how to approach sex and pleasure?
(a) Plants and animals.
(b) Artists.
(c) The work of the great poets.
(d) The Bible.

4. How does Rilke advise the young poet to view sex?
(a) To see it as a temptation to be avoided.
(b) To rejoice in it but not lose oneself in it.
(c) To distance sex from art.
(d) To fear it.

5. In letter seven, what does Rilke say that love should be?
(a) A union of one with another.
(b) A selfless act.
(c) A motivation for each person to become wholly him or herself.
(d) A balance of mental and physical.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why has it taken so long for Rilke to reply to the young poet with his seventh letter?

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

3. Rilke says that eventually women no longer are the opposite of men, but something else. What are they?

4. In the sixth letter, in what manner does Rilke advise the young poet to be solitary?

5. Whose ideas about sex does Rilke advise the young poet to avoid subscribing to?

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