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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. To what does Rilke compare people who are preparing for God?
(a) Bees.
(b) Roses.
(c) Poems.
(d) Fools.

2. Who does Rilke tell the young poet to be considerate of because of their fear of solitude?
(a) Parents.
(b) Artists who have not yet found their way.
(c) The elderly.
(d) Children.

3. In the fifth letter, Rilke tells the young poet that a package the young poet has sent to him has not arrived. What is in the package?
(a) A book that presents works by the young poet.
(b) A collection of books by Rilke.
(c) A special German cheese.
(d) The young poet's latest manuscript.

4. Rilke tells the young poet that in regard to his sickness, he is a sick man, a convalescent, and what else?
(a) A medicine.
(b) A shaman.
(c) A doctor.
(d) An illness.

5. What does Rilke say about "the dragons of our lives"?
(a) That they are necessary to make us strong.
(b) That they should be cast out of our lives.
(c) That they may in fact be princesses.
(d) That they can be slain.

Short Answer Questions

1. What type of poem does Rilke enclose with the seventh letter?

2. What does Rilke say about careers in the sixth letter?

3. What type of poetry does Rilke advise the poet not to write?

4. What two aspects of human life does Rilke claim have no explanation?

5. Rilke compares a person to a house and a sadness to what?

(see the answer key)

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