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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. From where is the first letter from Rilke to the young poet postmarked?
(a) Munich.
(b) Paris.
(c) Berlin.
(d) Prague.

2. In the fourth letter, what does Rilke instruct the young poet to do regarding the poet's unanswered questions?
(a) Seek answers from poetry.
(b) Seek answers in solitude.
(c) Love the questions.
(d) Seek answers from artists.

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

4. What does Rilke say is wrong with the way most people approach love?
(a) They believe it will always be easy.
(b) They forget to value their partners.
(c) They abandon their true selves in their passion.
(d) They focus too much on sex.

5. In what season is Rilke writing the seventh letter?
(a) Fall.
(b) Summer.
(c) Winter.
(d) Spring.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Rilke encourage the young poet to believe about God?

2. What works by the writer who Rilke revers most does Rilke always have accessible to him?

3. Rilke says that there is only one thing that "can grasp and hold and be just toward" art. What is that thing?

4. How does Rilke note that the future change in the role of women affects love?

5. In what year is Rilke's sixth letter written?

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