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Questions 1-5 of 25:

1.

Blue tarps are mentioned both in Propositions 3 and 18. Why is the image of a blue tarp important? (from Propositions 1 - 21)

The speaker experiences its beauty privately even in public.

It is evidence of the divine in everyday life.

It is a conventionally ordinary thing elevated to beauty by its color.

It is a distraction from the mundane events of the speaker’s life.

2.

Proposition 87 ends with the following: “What women, one would like to ask, did he know? At any rate, would that it were so.” What element of verse poetry does this mimic? (from Propositions 63 - 98)

Rhyming couplet.

Internal rhyme.

Enjambment.

Iambic pentameter.

3.

Why is the speaker disappointed by the famous blue paintings of Yves Klein? (from Propositions 63 - 98)

She must question her love of blue.

The paintings are boring.

The lack of variety is overwhelming.

She cannot look at the paintings.

4.

In Proposition 216, what is being commemorated? (from Propositions 209 - 240)

The 2001 world economic slowdown.

September 11th, 2001.

January 1st, 2000: the new millennium.

The day “you” left the speaker.

5.

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

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

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

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.

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