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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)

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.

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

2.

In Proposition 42, the speaker’s lecture notes read: “Heárt-bréak is a spondee,” which makes the speaker weep with despair. Why does poetic analysis make the poet feel hopeless? (from Propositions 22 - 62)

She believes analysis makes something lifeless.

The speaker cannot face lecturing about poetry when she is experiencing writer’s block.

She is overwhelmed by the demands of her daily life.

It is another example of logic’s failure to explain the human experience.

3.

Why is the speaker not jealous of the many other people who love the color blue or write books about it? (from Propositions 148 - 180)

She has a deeper relationship with blue than others do.

There is too much blue for one person.

Her relationship with blue is personal and therefore unique.

Attraction to blue is a basic human compulsion.

4.

Why is the “systematic illusion of color” similar to the experience of love (#53)? (from Propositions 22 - 62)

Science can explain neither color nor love.

In both cases, one believes one’s impressions are intrinsic qualities of the color or beloved, rather than one’s own constructions.

Colors emerge from an incomprehensible chaos of factors, as does love.

It is impossible to escape experiencing either color or love without making oneself entirely blind.

5.

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

The deceptiveness of religion.

The meaninglessness of value judgments.

The impurity of human perception.

The false promise of blue.

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