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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Section 6.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. During what decade does the correspondence contained in this volume take place?
(a) 1890s.
(b) 1920s.
(c) 1900s.
(d) 1910s.

2. How does Rilke suggest one knows if one should not be a poet?
(a) If one is bored by one's own writing.
(b) If one cannot get published after 100 tries.
(c) If one can live without writing.
(d) If one does not like to read others' poetry.

3. Rilke writes that "most events are inexpressible," and says that one category of things is more inexpressible than all the rest. What is this category?
(a) Human frailty.
(b) Human communication.
(c) Human suffering.
(d) Works of art.

4. How does Rilke note that the future change in the role of women affects love?
(a) It makes love more human.
(b) It makes love more patient.
(c) It makes love more real.
(d) It makes love more feminine.

5. What does Rilke advise the young poet to do if he cannot connect with people?
(a) Read more books.
(b) Identify with nature, animals, and children.
(c) Develop his sense of empathy.
(d) Learn an instrument.

Short Answer Questions

1. Rilke says that in certain places, the emergence of women is already taking place. Where is this?

2. On what holiday does the young poet write his third letter to Rilke?

3. Why isn't Rilke able to fill the request the young poet poses in his third letter to Rilke?

4. In what year does Rilke write the fifth letter?

5. What does Rilke say about everything that is serious?

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