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Questions 1-5 of 25:

1.

Why does the speaker claim the label of “spiritual cripple” that a critic once leveled at Sei Shōnagon (#124)? (from Propositions 99 - 133)

She wants to remove the hierarchy between spiritual concerns, considered valuable, and temporal concerns, considered trivial.

She feels an affinity for the vindictiveness of Shōnagon’s book.

She wants to challenge the way male critics accuse female writers of shallowness.

She feels an affinity for the lack of spiritual contemplation in Shōnagon’s book.

2.

Why are the speaker and her injured friend unimpressed by platitudes about the reasons for pain? (from Propositions 209 - 240)

These platitudes may apply to smaller ills, but not to the gravity of the friend’s injuries.

Saying there is a reason is lazy, since it makes no attempt to define that reason.

Having a reason does not make pain easier or offer a solution.

Only people who have nothing helpful to say resort to platitudes.

3.

What does the iron pyrite in lapis lazuli symbolize to the speaker? (from Propositions 148 - 180)

The meaninglessness of value judgments.

The impurity of human perception.

The deceptiveness of religion.

The false promise of blue.

4.

What does the speaker mean when she says that the female gaze must be explored with “the eyes staying in the head” (#59)? (from Propositions 22 - 62)

That desire should be private, not public.

That historically, women have been punished for desiring, and this must change.

That male and female desire should be equally expressed.

That women need to learn to indulge their own desires.

5.

What does the bird habitat metaphor in Proposition 199 represent? (from Propositions 181 - 208)

That the heart is fragile, like a bird’s nest.

That the speaker was left behind while “you” moved on.

That the speaker’s heart is now empty like an abandoned nest.

That love is precious, even when it ends badly.

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