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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. What does Rilke say humans have grown away from because of their lack of courage?
2. In the fifth letter, Rilke tells the young poet that a package the young poet has sent to him has not arrived. What is in the package?
3. What does Rilke say is "the most difficult of all our tasks"?
4. Who writes the poem Rilke encloses with his seventh letter?
5. How does Rilke note that the future change in the role of women affects love?
Short Essay Questions
1. What is Rilke's definition of love?
2. 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?
3. Why does Rilke believe that women are responsible for a future change in humans' approach to romantic love?
4. What advice does Rilke give the young poet for doctoring his sadness?
5. In letter six, what does Rilke tell the young poet he should do if he is lonely?
6. What can be inferred about the young poet's feelings toward his own solitude from Rilke's seventh letter?
7. What does Rilke say about the amount of beauty in Rome?
8. Rilke indicates that humans have distanced themselves from the spiritual realm, from God, and from each other. How has this distancing occurred?
9. Rilke says that young people can't understand love. What reason does he give?
10. 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?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
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?
Essay Topic 2
Compile, analyze, and explain a unified artistic theory according to Rilke.
Essay Topic 3
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?
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