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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. How does Professor Horacek know Rilke?
(a) Professor Horacek knows Rilke's grandfather.
(b) Professor Horacek teaches Rilke at a military academy.
(c) Professor Horacek is Rilke's editor.
(d) Professor Horacek raises Rilke.

3. What works by the writer who Rilke revers most does Rilke always have accessible to him?
(a) Winter's Best and On the Way.
(b) Jude the Obscure and Tess of the D'Urbervilles.
(c) An Endless Summer and Tomorrow.
(d) Six Stories and Niels Lyhne.

4. What does Rilke believe is wrong with sex?
(a) It subordinates women.
(b) It is not wholly human and is based on temporary emotions.
(c) It goes against Christianity.
(d) It distracts the artist from his work.

5. What does the young poet request in his third letter to Rilke?
(a) Copies of Rilke's books.
(b) Suggestions for further reading.
(c) Advice on writing sonnets.
(d) A list of publishers to whom the poet can send his work.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What does Rilke say the young poet should do if he determines he should not be a poet?

3. In letter three, what does Rilke claim to be the most important element of becoming an artist?

4. In the second letter, who does Rilke cite as his artistic influences?

5. If the young poet discovers he should not be a poet, Rilke suggests that his inner examination will not be worthless. Why not?

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