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Questions 1-5 of 25:

1.

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.

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

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

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

2.

What do the blue shirt “you” wears and the blue coat of Goethe’s Werther symbolize? (from Propositions 99 - 133)

Suicide.

Deception.

Lost or false love.

Depression.

3.

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

September 11th, 2001.

The 2001 world economic slowdown.

The day “you” left the speaker.

January 1st, 2000: the new millennium.

4.

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 challenge the way male critics accuse female writers of shallowness.

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

5.

In Proposition 144, what does the blue of the candle flame represent? (from Propositions 134 - 147)

Suicidal thinking.

The shifting experience of depression.

Hope in the midst of despair.

Private suffering.

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