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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What does Rilke say about fears in the world in letter eight?
(a) Fears are natural.
(b) Fears must be ignored.
(c) Gears must be acknowledged.
(d) We have created the fears.

3. In the second letter, who does Rilke cite as his artistic influences?
(a) Jens Peter Jacobsen and Auguste Rodin.
(b) The writer of the Psalms and Shakespeare.
(c) Shakespeare and Beethoven.
(d) Jens Peter Jacobsen and the writer of the Psalms.

4. What does Rilke encourage the young poet to believe about God?
(a) That he does not exist.
(b) That he is everywhere.
(c) That he has not yet come.
(d) That he is in art.

5. In what year is Rilke's sixth letter written?
(a) 1903.
(b) 1908.
(c) 1912.
(d) 1904.

Short Answer Questions

1. In the third letter, Rilke requests that the young poet avoid something. What is it that he asks the poet to avoid?

2. What famous author does Rilke reference in letter eight?

3. Why does Rilke believe that Rome makes one sad for the first few days of visiting it?

4. From where is Rilke's sixth letter written?

5. What does Rilke assert about the nature of human existence that he claims is a fact whether we think so or not?

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