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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 about careers in the sixth letter?
2. What does Rilke imply about losing God?
3. Who does Rilke say in the seventh letter cannot understand love?
4. Rilke says that in certain places, the emergence of women is already taking place. Where is this?
5. From where is the seventh letter written?
Short Essay Questions
1. 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?
2. 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?
3. Why does Rilke believe that women are responsible for a future change in humans' approach to romantic love?
4. What does Rilke mean when he says that the names of things are often misrepresented of what things are?
5. What can be inferred about the young poet's feelings toward his own solitude from Rilke's seventh letter?
6. What does Rilke mean when he says that humans have no choice in deciding to be solitary?
7. Why does Rilke send a copy of the young poet's sonnet with letter seven?
8. What does Rilke say about fear?
9. Explain what Rilke means when in letter eight he says that sadness "are the moments when something new has entered into us".
10. 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?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Discuss the apparent contradiction between Rilke's separate emphases on solitude and meaningful sexual union with other human beings.
Essay Topic 2
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 3
What is Rilke's view of the ideal sexual relationship? The ideal romantic relationship? The ideal parent-child relationship?
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