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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. How does Rilke say the young poet's career compares to other careers?
(a) Rilke says the young poet's career is more distinguished than other careers.
(b) Rilke says that the young poet's career is better than other careers because it allows more solitude.
(c) Rilke says that the young poet's career has more conventions than other careers.
(d) Rilke says that the young poet's career is essentially the same as all other careers.

3. What works by the writer who Rilke revers most does Rilke always have accessible to him?
(a) Winter's Best and On the Way.
(b) An Endless Summer and Tomorrow.
(c) Six Stories and Niels Lyhne.
(d) Jude the Obscure and Tess of the D'Urbervilles.

4. What does Rilke advise the poet to do in regard to his efforts to get published?
(a) Send his poems to Rilke's publisher.
(b) Send his poems to as many magazines as possible.
(c) Send his poems to the United States.
(d) Discontinue his efforts to receive feedback from publishers and other external parties.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Rilke claim a sadness that enters into the body is in actuality?

2. Rilke tells the young poet that in regard to his sickness, he is a sick man, a convalescent, and what else?

3. From whom does Rilke advise the young poet to avoid seeking advice?

4. Who resists the future change in women that Rilke notes in letter seven?

5. Who does Rilke tell the young poet to be considerate of because of their fear of solitude?

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