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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. At the close of letter eight, what does Rilke tell the poet about people who give him advice?
2. From where is Rilke's sixth letter written?
3. What does Rilke say women have more of than men?
4. What does Rilke advise the young poet to do if he cannot connect with people?
5. What does Rilke say about careers in the sixth letter?
Short Essay Questions
1. How does Rilke respond to the young poet's expression of fear that the young poet has lost God?
2. What can be inferred about the young poet's feelings toward his own solitude from Rilke's seventh letter?
3. Rilke says that young people can't understand love. What reason does he give?
4. Rilke implies that security and comfort are negative. Why?
5. What is Rilke's definition of love?
6. Explain what Rilke means when in letter eight he says that sadness "are the moments when something new has entered into us".
7. In letter six, what does Rilke tell the young poet he should do if he is lonely?
8. In letter six, Rilke encourages the young poet to maintain what he calls "a child's wise incomprehension" rather than joining in the "defensiveness and disdain" that are shared by the masses. What does he mean by this?
9. What does Rilke say about the amount of beauty in Rome?
10. In letter seven, Rilke compares an ideal romantic relationship to "two solitudes [that] protect and border and salute each other." What does he mean by this?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Throughout the letters, and especially in letter eight, Rilke suggests that people are not truly living their lives--that their experiences are dulled from familiarity and security. What type of living is Rilke advocating? What is this type of living like?
Essay Topic 2
Compile, analyze, and explain a unified artistic theory according to Rilke.
Essay Topic 3
Explain Rilke's ideas about the interrelationship of sex and art. How are sex and art similar? What should the role of sexuality be in the life of the artist?
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