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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 women have more of than men?
(a) Empathy.
(b) Patience.
(c) Love.
(d) Humanity.

2. What has brought Rilke to the place from where he writes the second letter?
(a) Rilke has moved there to be close to his family.
(b) Rilke has moved there because the community is very supportive of his writing.
(c) Rilke has moved there to get well.
(d) Rilke has moved there to work on his writing.

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

4. In the first letter, what does Rilke cite as the most disruptive hindrance to the young poet's progress?
(a) Romantic entanglements.
(b) Looking for others to answer the poet's own personal questions.
(c) Non-artistic work.
(d) Drinking.

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 self-sufficiency.
(b) Discipline and solitude.
(c) Independence and solitude.
(d) Inedependence and self-sufficiency.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is Rilke's salutation at the end of the first letter?

2. How does Rilke say individuals can help prepare for God's coming?

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

4. How does Rilke advise the young poet to view sex?

5. What does Rilke say about careers in the sixth letter?

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