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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Section 2.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why isn't Rilke able to fill the request the young poet poses in his third letter to Rilke?
(a) Rilk is preparing to move.
(b) Rilke is too poor to afford to buy his books.
(c) Rilke doesn't want to encourage the young poet.
(d) Rilke is ill.

2. What has brought Rilke to the place from where he writes the second letter?
(a) Rilke has moved there because the community is very supportive of his writing.
(b) Rilke has moved there to be close to his family.
(c) Rilke has moved there to work on his writing.
(d) Rilke has moved there to get well.

3. In letter three, how many books does Rilke say he has published?
(a) 20 or 21.
(b) 25 or 26.
(c) 12 or 13.
(d) 18.

4. What is Rilke's primary criticism of the young poet's writing in the first letter?
(a) It is shallow.
(b) It does not rhyme.
(c) It lacks creativity.
(d) It has no individual style.

5. To what does Rilke compare artistic experience?
(a) Religion.
(b) Epiphany.
(c) Transcendence.
(d) Sex.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Rilke advise the poet to do in regard to his efforts to get published?

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

3. From where does Rilke instruct the young poet to derive inspiration?

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

5. Rilke says that there is only one thing that "can grasp and hold and be just toward" art. What is that thing?

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