lettter to a young poet

In the author’s opinion, the poems “My Soul” and “To Leopardi” are similar
Answer choices for the above question

• D. they are the two poems the author thinks his friend should re-write
  

• A. they both explore themes of death and reincarnation
  

• B. they are deeply personal
  

• C. they are pleasant but have only the beginnings of an individual voice of their own
  

In the author’s opinion, the most important thing a young writer can do is to.
Answer choices for the above question

• B. come from a wealthy family
  

• A. decide how necessary writing is for them
  

• C. seek and receive feedback from as many experts as possible
  

• D. all of the above
  

Based on the passage below (paragraph 3), the letter’s author mainly thinks that love-poems.
Do not write love-poems; avoid at first those forms that are too facile and commonplace: they are the most difficult, for it
takes a great, fully matured power to give something of your own where good and even excellent traditions come to mind in
quantity

• C. have always been bad because they offer little beyond the obvious
  

• A. are better for beginners to write because they are commonplace and easier to master
  

• D. are the hardest to write because they have been mastered so many times before

• B. are his favorite kind of poems because they are the most challenging
  

Which of the following words best describes the author’s tone in the letter?
Answer choices for the above question

• direct

• proud

• loving

• D. confessional
  

With which of the following statements about writing would the author of the letter most likely agree?
Answer choices for the above question

• A. The biggest challenge of writing for a living is getting paid for your work.
  

• B. Choosing not to pursue the life of a writer doesn’t make someone a failure.
  

• C. Writers who have nothing new or important to say can still produce great work.
  

• D. No one can really be a good writer until they are at least forty years old.
  

Which of the following passages from the letter most strongly supports the answer to the previous question?
Answer choices for the above question

• . “The verses which you kindly entrusted to me I am returning at the same time. And I thank you once more for your
  great and sincere confidence, of which I have tried, through this honest answer given to the best of my knowledge, to make
  myself a little worthier than, as a stranger, I really am.”

  
  

• C. “It was a pleasure to me to find in your letter the name of Professor Horacek; I keep for that lovable and learned man
  a great veneration and a gratitude that endures through the years.”
  

• B. “But even then this inward searching which I ask of you will not have been in vain. Your life will in any case find its
  own ways thence, and that they may be good, rich and wide I wish you more than I can say.”
  

• “And even if you were in some prison the walls of which let none of the sounds of the world come to your senses—
  would you not then still have your childhood, that precious, kingly possession, that treasure-house of memories? Turn your
  attention thither

which of the following inferences about the letter’s recipient is best supported by the passage below (paragraphs 6–7)?
It was a pleasure to me to find in your letter the name of Professor Horacek; I keep for that lovable and learned man a great
veneration and a gratitude that endures through the years. Will you, please, tell him how I feel; it is very good of him still to
think of me, and I know how to appreciate it.
The verses which you kindly entrusted to me I am returning at the same time. And I thank you once more for your great and
sincere confidence, of which I have tried, through this honest answer given to the best of my knowledge, to make myself a
little worthier than, as a stranger, I really am.

• B. The recipient is paying the author for his advice.
  

• A. The recipient of the letter is a close family friend.
  

• C. The recipient asked the author to share a few of his own poems in return.
  

• D. The recipient of the letter is a college student or recent graduate.
  

Which of the following sentences from the passage best supports the answer to the previous question?
Answer choices for the above question

• B. “Will you, please, tell him how I feel; it is very good of him still to think of me, and I know how to appreciate it.”
  

• A. “It was a pleasure to me to find in your letter the name of Professor Horacek; I keep for that lovable and learned
  man a great veneration and a gratitude that endures through the years.”
  

• C. “The verses which you kindly entrusted to me I am returning at the same time.”
  

• D. “And I thank you once more for your great and sincere confidence, of which I have tried, through this honest answer
  given to the best of my knowledge, to make myself a little worthier than, as a stranger, I really am.”