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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who does Rilke say in the seventh letter cannot understand love?
(a) Military officers.
(b) Young people.
(c) Anyone who is not an artist.
(d) Children.

2. What type of poetry does Rilke advise the poet not to write?
(a) Narrative poems.
(b) Love poems and other common forms.
(c) Lyric poems.
(d) Epics.

3. What two aspects of human life does Rilke claim have no explanation?
(a) Love and art.
(b) Death and love.
(c) Forgiveness and hatred.
(d) Birth and death.

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

5. At the close of the sixth letter, what does Rilke advise the young poet to do in regards to the coming holiday?
(a) Celebrate by writing.
(b) Celebrate by committing to the idea that acts of love and joy are preparing the way for God.
(c) Celebrate with others.
(d) Celebrate in solitude and gratitude.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which letter from the young poet is Rilke responding to with his fourth letter?

2. Who resists the future change in women that Rilke notes in letter seven?

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

4. How long has Rilke been in the city from which he writes the fifth letter?

5. What is the name of the young poet who is the recipient of the letters contained in this volume?

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