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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. Who resists the future change in women that Rilke notes in letter seven?
2. In what year is Rilke writing the eighth letter?
3. From where is Rilke writing the eighth letter?
4. What does the sixth letter reveal about the state of the young poet?
5. At the end of letter eight, what does Rilke remind the young poet of?
Short Essay Questions
1. What does Rilke mean when he says that humans have no choice in deciding to be solitary?
2. What is Rilke's definition of love?
3. What can be inferred about the young poet's feelings toward his own solitude from Rilke's seventh letter?
4. What does Rilke mean when he says that the names of things are often misrepresented of what things are?
5. How does Rilke respond to the young poet's expression of fear that the young poet has lost God?
6. What can be inferred about the mental and emotional state of the young poet from Rilke's reply in letter six?
7. Why does Rilke send a copy of the young poet's sonnet with letter seven?
8. What does Rilke say about the amount of beauty in Rome?
9. Rilke says that young people can't understand love. What reason does he give?
10. Explain what Rilke means when in letter eight he says that sadness "are the moments when something new has entered into us".
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Explain what Rilke meant when he said in letter ten that "Art...is only a way of living". How is this statement developed in other excerpts from the letters?
Essay Topic 2
In letter eight, Rilke compares the sense of security to which individuals cling to the horrors that exist in the homes of the characters of Edgar Allan Poe's stories. Analyze one of Poe's stories or longer poems using the life philosophies of Rilke as a lens through which to view the horrors of Poe's work as personal delusions and securities.
Essay Topic 3
In what ways can Rilke's tenth letter be viewed as a sendoff of sorts to the young poet?
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