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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.
Short Answer Questions
1. In letter seven, what does Rilke say that love should be?
2. From where is the seventh letter written?
3. What aspect of human life does Rilke say is most burdened with conventions?
4. At the end of letter eight, what does Rilke remind the young poet of?
5. Rilke compares the existence of each individual to a room. What portion of that room do most people experience?
Short Essay Questions
1. Rilke comments on the young poet's profession and compares the young poet's profession to other professions. What is Rilke's general idea about professions?
2. What does Rilke say about fear?
3. Rilke implies that security and comfort are negative. Why?
4. Rilke indicates that humans have distanced themselves from the spiritual realm, from God, and from each other. How has this distancing occurred?
5. In letter five, Rilke comments on Rome and says that the first few days one is in Rome have "an oppressively sad effect" because everything in Rome is old and looking backward toward the past. How does this sentiment reflect Rilke's life philosophies as he has expressed them thus far in the book?
6. What does Rilke mean when, in letter seven, he says that in the future, femininity will not be "merely an opposite of the masculine, but. something in itself"?
7. What does Rilke say that the average person will continue to do in regards to love?
8. Why does Rilke believe that women are responsible for a future change in humans' approach to romantic love?
9. What is Rilke's definition of love?
10. What advice does Rilke give the young poet for doctoring his sadness?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Compile, analyze, and explain a unified artistic theory according to Rilke.
Essay Topic 2
What would the artistic and academic worlds be like without aesthetic criticism, as it seems Rilke would have it? Is Rilke able to reject the idea of aesthetic criticism only because he is an artist himself?
Essay Topic 3
Explain and analyze Rilke's understanding of God and how that view of God is atypical for the time in which Rilke lived.
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