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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What writer does Rilke revere most?
(a) Alfred Lord Tennyson.
(b) Jens Peter Jacobsen.
(c) Thomas Hardy.
(d) Ovid.

3. In the third letter, Rilke requests that the young poet avoid something. What is it that he asks the poet to avoid?
(a) Reading contemporary literature.
(b) Drinking.
(c) Reading aesthetic criticism.
(d) Studying science.

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

5. What does Rilke send to the young poet in reply to the poet's first letter?
(a) Money.
(b) A list of potential publishers.
(c) A letter and the poet's poems.
(d) A volume of Rilke's poetry.

Short Answer Questions

1. In what year does Rilke write the fourth letter?

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

3. How does Professor Horacek know Rilke?

4. What is Rilke's primary criticism of the young poet's writing in the first letter?

5. Rilke indicates that in the future, men and women will approach each other differently than they do at the time of his writing. How will they approach each other?

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