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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Section 7.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In what magazine is the poem that Rilke sens with letter nine published?
(a) "Poetry."
(b) "The Poetry Review of Prague."
(c) "Deutsche Arbeit."
(d) "European Quarterly."

2. What type of poem does Rilke enclose with the seventh letter?
(a) An ode.
(b) A sonnet.
(c) An elegy.
(d) An epic.

3. What does Rilke say about intoxication?
(a) That intoxication should be avoided.
(b) That intoxication can be a good state in which to write.
(c) That intoxication should not be used to increase one's emotional experiences.
(d) That intoxication is a bad state in which to write.

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

5. 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) Reading aesthetic criticism.
(c) Studying science.
(d) Reading contemporary literature.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What does Rilke wish for the young poet at the close of letter ten?

3. What is the young poet's military rank?

4. What type of geography is the young poet living among while Rilke is writing letter ten?

5. What aspect of human life does Rilke say is most burdened with conventions?

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