How to Be Both Quiz

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Questions 1-5 of 25:

1.

Why does the parable of the ring perplex Barto? (from Section 5: Pages 265 – 315)

Because Barto has difficulty grasping complex ideas.

Because he can't understant why one can have both power and love.

Because he can't understand why Frodo would want to destroy the ring and become powerless.

Because he can't understand why one cannot have both power and love.

2.

Why does Barto have Cossa try the Rite of Mnemosyne? (from Section 5: Pages 265 – 315)

Because Cossa is thirsty and only wants a glass of water.

So Cossa can become one with the past.

So painful memories no longer hurt him.

So Cossa can gain a deeper foundational understanding of the roots of Western civilization.

3.

Most of George's interactions with her mother come by way of what? (from Section 1: Pages 1 – 65)

International travel.

After school outings.

Fiction.

Memories.

4.

Why does Cossa go to brothels to sketch girls, rather than merely to sleep with them? (from Section 4: Pages 200 – 264)

Because he needs models for his paintings and is too afraid to ask nice girls.

Because he is gay.

Because he knows that one must treat all others with respect, especially in the art world.

Because he sees the girls as human beings rather than mere sexual objects.

5.

What does Francesco consider as he returns to Heaven? (from Section 5: Pages 265 – 315)

That epistemology is critical in perception, knowledge, and understanding the truth of things.

That seeing otuwardly is a measure of seeing inwardly, and that the two affect how one perceives objects in relation to the self.

How seeing isn’t always seeing, and that the tiny and many variations of color cannot be understood unless seen up close.

Why he didn't go to McDonald's when he had the chance.

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