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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What does Rilke say about "the dragons of our lives"?
(a) That they can be slain.
(b) That they are necessary to make us strong.
(c) That they may in fact be princesses.
(d) That they should be cast out of our lives.

3. What does Rilke view as a challenge of the young poet's new profession?
(a) Its lack of free time.
(b) Its adherence to convention.
(c) Its lack of creativity.
(d) Its rigorous hours.

4. From where is the seventh letter written?
(a) Athens, Greece.
(b) Bremen, Germany.
(c) Paris, France.
(d) Rome, Italy.

5. Whose ideas about sex does Rilke advise the young poet to avoid subscribing to?
(a) Rilke's own.
(b) Richard Dehmel's.
(c) Jens Peter Jacobsen's.
(d) Professor Horacek's.

Short Answer Questions

1. In what year is Rilke's second letter composed?

2. Where is Rilke when he writes the second letter?

3. During what decade does the correspondence contained in this volume take place?

4. Which letter from the young poet is Rilke responding to with his fourth letter?

5. In letter eight, what does Rilke say the young poet "overvalues"?

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