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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does Professor Horacek know Rilke?
(a) Professor Horacek raises Rilke.
(b) Professor Horacek knows Rilke's grandfather.
(c) Professor Horacek is Rilke's editor.
(d) Professor Horacek teaches Rilke at a military academy.

2. What poem did Rilke send with letter nine?
(a) "My Life."
(b) "On Love."
(c) "The Cornet."
(d) Sonnet IV.

3. What type of geography is the young poet living among while Rilke is writing letter ten?
(a) Calm beaches.
(b) Choppy seas.
(c) Windy hills.
(d) Endless mountains.

4. What type of poetry does Rilke advise the poet not to write?
(a) Narrative poems.
(b) Lyric poems.
(c) Epics.
(d) Love poems and other common forms.

5. From where does Rilke write the fourth letter?
(a) Viareggio, near Pisa, Italy.
(b) Worpswede, near Bremen, Germany.
(c) Paris, France.
(d) Berlin, Germany.

Short Answer Questions

1. In the second letter, who does Rilke cite as his artistic influences?

2. What does Rilke say about fears in the world in letter eight?

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

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

5. At the close of letter seven, what love does Rilke tell the young poet to remember?

(see the answer key)

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