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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Rilke say is bad about physical pleasure?
(a) Its temptation.
(b) Humans' misuse and waste of it.
(c) Its ability to keep artists away from their work.
(d) Its ability to bring happiness.

2. In the third letter, what does Rilke say he wishes he could do for the young poet but is unable to do?
(a) Present the poet's work to Rilke's publishers.
(b) Visit the young poet.
(c) Publish the poet's work.
(d) Give the poet some of his own books.

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

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

5. What writer and personal acquaintance does Rilke discuss in letter three?
(a) Professor Horacek.
(b) Richard Strauss.
(c) Richard Dehmel.
(d) Thomas Hardy.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What does Rilke ask the young poet to do for him at the end of the first letter?

3. What does Rilke thank the young poet for at the end of the first letter?

4. Why does it take Rilke so long to respond to the young poet's second letter?

5. In whose handwriting does the poem Rilke enclosed with his seventh letter appear?

(see the answer key)

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