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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What does Rilke ask the young poet to do for him at the end of the first letter?
(a) Visit his mother.
(b) Distribute Rilke's books to the young poet's friends.
(c) Tell Professor Horacek of Rilke's esteem for him.
(d) Write a letter to the young poet's school informing the school of Rilke's success.

3. What does Rilke encourage the young poet to believe about God?
(a) That he is in art.
(b) That he has not yet come.
(c) That he does not exist.
(d) That he is everywhere.

4. How long has Rilke been in the city from which he writes the fifth letter?
(a) Six weeks.
(b) Six days.
(c) Two months.
(d) Two weeks.

5. What does the young poet write about in his third letter to Rilke that Rilke mentions in his letter back to the young poet?
(a) His decision to become a sculptor.
(b) His first publication.
(c) The works of William Shakespeare.
(d) The works of Jens Peter Jacobsen.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does Rilke delay so long in replying to the young poet's fifth letter?

2. Where is Rilke when he writes the third letter?

3. From where is Rilke's sixth letter written?

4. What does Rilke say is wrong with men?

5. In the first letter, in what manner does Rilke suggest the young poet can tend to his personal growth?

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