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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. From whom does Rilke advise the young poet to avoid seeking advice?
(a) Artists.
(b) Parents.
(c) Military officers.
(d) Poets.

2. Rilke writes that "most events are inexpressible," and says that one category of things is more inexpressible than all the rest. What is this category?
(a) Human frailty.
(b) Works of art.
(c) Human communication.
(d) Human suffering.

3. What acquaintance do Rilke and the young poet have in common?
(a) Professor Kruppa.
(b) James Joyce.
(c) A distant cousin.
(d) Professor Horacek.

4. Which letter from the young poet is Rilke responding to with his fourth letter?
(a) The young poet's letter of Easter, 1903.
(b) The young poet's letter of May 2, 1908.
(c) The young poet's letter of Easter, 1907.
(d) The young poet's letter of May 2, 1903.

5. Near the close of the fourth letter, Rilke mentions the positive aspects of the young poet's new profession. What are those positive aspects?
(a) Discipline and solitude.
(b) Independence and solitude.
(c) Inedependence and self-sufficiency.
(d) Discipline and self-sufficiency.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does the young poet describe the writer and personal acquaintance Rilke mentions?

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

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

4. What does Rilke suggest that all humans share in, both women and men?

5. What does Rilke tell the young poet to rejoice in?

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