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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Rilke call himself in relation to the young poet at the end of the first letter?
(a) An expert.
(b) A master.
(c) A sage.
(d) A stranger.

2. Rilke says that there is only one thing that "can grasp and hold and be just toward" art. What is that thing?
(a) Open-mindedness.
(b) Creativity.
(c) Hope.
(d) Love.

3. Where is Rilke when he writes the second letter?
(a) Berlin, Germany.
(b) Florence, Italy.
(c) Viareggio, near Pisa, Italy.
(d) Athens, Greece.

4. 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.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Professor Horacek know Rilke?

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

3. In letter three, how many books does Rilke say he has published?

4. In the first letter the young poet sent to Rilke along with his poems, what does he ask of Rilke?

5. What does the young poet request in his third letter to Rilke?

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