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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Section 3.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Rilke advise the poet to do in regard to his efforts to get published?
(a) Send his poems to as many magazines as possible.
(b) Send his poems to the United States.
(c) Send his poems to Rilke's publisher.
(d) Discontinue his efforts to receive feedback from publishers and other external parties.

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

3. What does Rilke tell the young poet about irony?
(a) Irony should be sparingly used.
(b) Irony should never be used.
(c) Irony should be liberally used.
(d) Irony should only be used for humor.

4. Why has Rilke come to the place where he composes the fourth letter?
(a) To improve his health.
(b) To meet with his publisher.
(c) To visit his family.
(d) To write in solitude.

5. Who does Rilke tell the young poet to be considerate of because of their fear of solitude?
(a) Parents.
(b) Artists who have not yet found their way.
(c) Children.
(d) The elderly.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. Where is the young poet who is the recipient of the letters studying when he begins to receive correspondence from Rilke?

4. In the fourth letter, what does Rilke instruct the young poet to do regarding the poet's unanswered questions?

5. What novel does Rilke discuss in letter three?

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