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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 send to the young poet in reply to the poet's first letter?
(a) A letter and the poet's poems.
(b) A volume of Rilke's poetry.
(c) A list of potential publishers.
(d) Money.

2. In the second letter, who does Rilke cite as his artistic influences?
(a) Jens Peter Jacobsen and the writer of the Psalms.
(b) The writer of the Psalms and Shakespeare.
(c) Jens Peter Jacobsen and Auguste Rodin.
(d) Shakespeare and Beethoven.

3. What does Rilke say women have more of than men?
(a) Humanity.
(b) Patience.
(c) Empathy.
(d) Love.

4. What city has Rilke departed from to come to the place where he composes the fourth letter?
(a) Worpswede, near Bremen, Germany.
(b) Viareggio, near Pisa, Italy.
(c) Paris, France.
(d) Berlin, Germany.

5. What does Rilke assert about the nature of human existence that he claims is a fact whether we think so or not?
(a) We are creative beings.
(b) We are solitary.
(c) We are made in God's image.
(d) We are built to love.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Professor Horacek know Rilke?

2. What has brought Rilke to the place from where he writes the second letter?

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

4. To what does Rilke compare people who are preparing for God?

5. Why isn't Rilke able to fill the request the young poet poses in his third letter to Rilke?

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