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PHIL 181 – Week 5 questionnaire 1 PHIL 181 – Existentialism Fall 2018 W
EEK 5
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UESTIONNAIRE
Topics: Sartre, ‘On Camus’; ‘Existentialism is a Humanism’; No Exit
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** **Ordering of answers in TED format might differ from ordering below!** **Double-check that you have clicked the correct button to ensure submission** 1. T/F: At the outset of Sartre’s review of The Stranger
, Sartre notes that, of the two predominant reactions to Meursault, the judgment that Meursault is innocent possesses greater insight than the judgment that he is a poor fool or an idiot. 2. Sartre sees The Myth of Sisyphus as providing a commentary on The Stranger
, in which Camus makes clear that the ‘hero’ is: a.
good b.
bad c.
immoral d.
absurd
3. Sartre argues that Camus uses the term ‘absurd’ in two different senses, one which refers to the _____ which consists in the mismatch between our aspirations and drives and the world itself, and another which refers instead to the _____ of absurdity in the first sense. (match) a.
awareness or consciousness b.
state of fact 4. In the course of pointing out that Camus’ themes in Myth are not especially new, Sartre refers to several earlier authors who have treated the same themes; which of the following is not one that Sartre mentions? a.
Pascal b.
French precursors of Nietzsche c.
Poincaré d.
Peter of Spain 5. In the course of noting the earlier authors that Camus himself refers to as his influences (Jaspers, Heidegger, Kierkegaard), Sartre claims that: a.
Camus outdoes them all b.
Camus provides new insight into their writings c.
Camus basically introduced them to the French public d.
Camus does not always seem to understand them
PHIL 181 – Week 5 questionnaire 2 6. Sartre sees Camus as claiming that the absurd is not already, from the beginning, an object of one of our _____, but is instead only eventually revealed to us in a kind of somber illumination of our situation in hopeless lucidity. a.
senses b.
ideas (concepts) c.
desires d.
hopes 7. The key reason that Sartre sees for the state of exile or outsider-ness that Camus has identified is that: a.
humans are in the world b.
humans are not the world c.
humans love other humans d.
humans hope for more pleasure than pain 8. T/F: Sartre takes Camus to hold that, because there is no God and because humans die, everything is permissible and every experience we have is as good as every other. 9. Sartre quotes Camus as claiming that the pervasive use of imagery by novelists shows that they have a conviction that _____ are futile, while _____ are able to convey an instructive message. (match) a.
sensory impressions b.
explanatory principles 10. T/F: Sartre thinks that Camus writes The Stranger
in such a way so as to convey or express the idea or notion of the absurd, whereas Myth of Sisyphus
is written so as to convey the feeling of the absurd. 11. Sartre notes that others have claimed that Camus’ style is a mix of both Hemingway and _____, though Sartre himself disagrees with the latter suggestion. a.
Faulkner b.
Joyce c.
Proust d.
Kafka 12. When noting the similarities between Camus and Hemingway, Sartre emphasizes the shared use of _____ sentences, which function like isolated snapshots. a.
florid b.
poetic c.
short d.
long 13. What example from Myth does Sartre point to as one that helpfully illuminates the kind of occasion that Camus means to use to create uneasiness in us by being confronted with the inhumanity of others and even ourselves? a.
watching someone rocking a baby to sleep b.
watching someone knitting a sweater out of rope c.
watching someone talking on the phone but behind glass d.
watching someone alone on a boat in the middle of the sea
PHIL 181 – Week 5 questionnaire 3 14. When Sartre associates Camus’ style and perspective with a general method of thinking about the world, he calls it the ‘analytic’ method, insofar as it insists that our experience of reality is ultimately only a series of in fact wholly isolated impressions. Who is not
mentioned as one of the several other authors who share this analytic method of thinking? a.
Hume b.
the American neo-realists c.
Voltaire d.
Kant 15. In addition to the Hemingway-like approach to each sentence as a whole, Sartre also emphasizes several other formal or technical elements that Camus uses in The Stranger to achieve his effect; which of the following is not mentioned by Sartre? a. the use of the present perfect tense (to eliminate any sense of anything ongoing) b. the use of mere juxtaposition of sentences rather than connecting them through words indicating causal links (to portray a mere succession of facts) c. the reporting discourse indirectly or in summary form d. the use of the traditional format of a story to organize the plot I. At the outset of his essay, ‘Existentialism is a Humanism’
, Sartre rehearses a number of common objections that people have made against existentialism; which of the following is not
one that he presents? a. it encourages people to remain in a state of despair b. it emphasizes only what is despicable about human existence c. it overlooks the value of solidarity d. it argues that, because there is no God, everyone can do as they please e. it presents the basic truth of human existence too directly II. T/F: Sartre claims that existentialism is a doctrine that actually makes human life possible. III. Sartre speculates that what really seems to annoy people about existentialism is its _____, and what really seems to frighten people about existentialism is that it confronts people with their own _____. (match) a. pessimism b. optimism c. mortality d. possibility of individual choice
IV. Though Sartre recognizes that there are some (‘Christian’) existentialists who disagree with him and continue to believe in the existence of God, he thinks that all existentialists have in come the beliefs that: (choose two) a. all humans have a single fixed essence or nature b. no humans have any say in what is real or what exists c. only what is objective matters in philosophy and critical thinking
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PHIL 181 – Week 5 questionnaire 4 d. human existence precedes essences; human existence is nothing other than what we make of ourselves e. the facts given to the human subject about existence for the point of departure for philosophy; human existence is, before all else, something that projects itself into the future and is conscious of doing so V. Sartre gives glosses on several key ‘existentialist’ terms; match the following terms with the characterization Sartre provides: (match) i. anguish a. the consciousness that in action one is always choosing not only for oneself but for all of humanity ii. abandonment b. the situation for those who must only reckon with what depends on their wills, and so must act without hope that something else will save them iii. despair c. the circumstance in which God does not exist, and neither does an eternal realm of values; humans are condemned to be free VI. T/F: Sartre claim that abandonment, for humans, entails anguish. VII. Given that humans are free – and so there is nothing higher and nothing fixed in human nature that we can put our trust in, to make sure things will turn out well – Sartre thinks we must accept that many ‘terrible’ things are perfectly possible for our future; the example, he considers is that, at some point, enough humans might decide to support _____, so many so that it will become humanity’s ‘truth’. a. optimism b. utopianism c. marxism d. fascism VIII. T/F: Sartre claims that, according to existentialism, even the person who has been a hero or a coward their whole life may, some day might cease to be the one and turn into the other; we have to wait and see whether or not the person actually has a total commitment to one or the other. IX. When Sartre returns to the idea that existentialism takes subjectivity as its point of departure, what ‘absolute truth’ does he affirm as expressing what happens when consciousness confronts itself? a. I think therefore I am b. all humans are mortals c. all humans are rational animals d. I am both finite and infinite X. Sartre then clarifies that he takes the ‘subjectivity’ in question to be: a. something absolutely individual b. something that has nothing to do with being an individual c. something that is really a form of being an object d. something that includes both oneself and all ‘others’ necessarily
PHIL 181 – Week 5 questionnaire 5 XI. T/F: Sartre admits that, though there is no universal human nature or essence, there is a universal human condition, which he takes to include all of the limitations that define ahead of time (‘a priori’) the fundamental situation of each human within the universe. XII. Sartre claims that with respect to human projects, _____ of our projects can be understood, at least in principle, by every other human. a. none b. few c. lots d. all XIII. Toward the end of the essay, Sartre infers from the fact that God does not exist to the conclusion that someone else must create values, since there is no meaning to life ‘a priori’, and that this someone is humans themselves. Though he acknowledges this expresses a kind of ‘humanism’ about value and meaning, Sartre distinguishes existentialist humanism from the earlier humanism of _____, which takes humanity to be itself something that should be an object of worship – an attitude which Sartre takes to lead ultimately to fascism. a. Aristotle b. Sor Juana de la Cruz c. Mary Wollstonecraft d. Auguste Comte XIV. Sartre himself understands ‘humanism’ to consist in the commitment to the priority of human subjectivity along with the idea that each human is always: a. itself the cause of everything that exists b. transcending itself by pursuing what it is not (yet) c. rejecting freedom in order to become an object d. turning inward away from the world and others to find its true self 16. The first character introduced in Sartre’s No Exit
, Garcin, initially describes his new environment as: a.
heaven b.
hell c.
a residence d.
a restaurant 17. T/F: Very soon into the play, Garcin asks the attendant (valet) where the place’s instruments of torture are kept. 18. Garcin begins to notice that several things are missing from the place; which of the following is not one of them? a.
mirrors b.
windows c.
toothbrush d.
eyelids e.
doors 19. Garcin also notices a bell, which the valet tells him ______ if he presses it.
PHIL 181 – Week 5 questionnaire 6 a.
will kill him b.
might or might not ring at all c.
will release gas into the room d.
will turn off the lights
20. When the next guest, Inez, arrives, she immediately asks Garcin: a.
whether she’s in heaven b.
whether she’s in hell c.
where to find the washroom d.
where her acquaintance, Florence, is 21. Though Garcin suggests that they quietly and politely keep to themselves, what does he keep doing that affects Inez? a.
singing b.
snoring c.
biting his nails d.
twisting and twitching his mouth 22. When the third guest, Estelle, arrives, she asks Garcin if he would: a.
give her his coat b.
give her his place on a sofa c.
help her strangle Inez d.
help her strangle herself 23. T/F: The guests seem to still be able to see and hear (at least in some form, for a while) what is going on back in ordinarily life. 24. When Garcin starts feeling too warm, he begins to take off his overcoat, which makes Estelle: a.
start mourning the loss of her own jacket b.
start mourning the loss of her husband c.
cry out ‘how dare you!’ and insist that Garcin keep his jacket on d.
shriek out of fear that he will use it to suffocate her 25. When Estelle remarks that it doesn’t make any sense why the three of them should be together, and Garcin adds that it does seem to be a pure fluke, how does Inez respond? a.
by laughing and suggesting that nothing at all in this place would be left to chance b.
by crying and asking for her mother c.
by storming off down the hall d.
by saying how much she likes them both
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PHIL 181 – Week 5 questionnaire 7 26. When Inez eventually asks each of them to say what they have done to deserve to be in this place, how do they respond? a.
Estelle confesses to murder b.
Garcin confesses to murder c.
Inez confesses to murder d.
Estelle and Garcin portray their lives as not involving anything that would merit such punishment 27. Who does Inez think will serve as their torturers? a.
the valet b.
the devil c.
Hitler d.
themselves, of each other 28. Though Garcin gets the group to agree to an arrangement of silent isolation from one another, Inez starts singing to herself and Estelle begins to try to put on her make-
up; what does Inez then offer to do for Estelle? a.
knife Garcin in the neck b.
serve as Estelle’s mirror (‘glass’) to inform her of how she looks c.
break open the door so Estelle can escape d.
tell Estelle the story of her life 29. When Garcin again suggests that they each try to forget that the others are there, Inez responds by claiming: a.
that this is absurd, because nothing can really prevent them from actually being there together in the way that they all feel b.
that this is the best idea, so they can each have their own private hell c.
that they can only have salvation together d.
that they will soon disappear from each other anyways 30. When they finally tell each other what really they are guilty of, Garcin admits to: a.
committing perjury in royal court b.
committing grand larceny in royal court c.
openly committing adultery with a girl who was lodging with him and his wife d.
poisoning his wife’s morning coffee 31. T/F: When it’s Estelle’s turn, she confesses to killing her own young baby girl, whom she had had with a lover, by drowning her in a lake in Switzerland. 32. The last thing that Estelle ‘sees’ of what’s going on in ordinary life is one of her lovers: a.
dancing to ‘St Louis Blues’ and making out with her best friend b.
mourning over her grave
PHIL 181 – Week 5 questionnaire 8 c.
informing her husband of everything that happened with the baby d.
stealing her safe from her house 33. After this episode, Estelle begs Garcin to take her in his arms; initially, Garcin pushes Estelle to commisserate with Inez; how does Estelle respond to Inez’s attempt to comfort her? a.
she passionately takes Inez in her arms b.
she spits in Inez’s face c.
she faints d.
she runs around in circles 34. When Garcin finally begins to respond to Estelle’s request, he is interrupted by visions of ordinary life, which moves him to tell more of the details surrounding his death, and to request that _____ say that she trusts him and that he is not a coward and that she will have faith in him. a.
his wife b.
Inez c.
Estelle d.
his mother 35. When Garcin finally has had enough, he tries to escape by pushing the bell, pounding on the door, rattling the doorknob, begging for a torture besides the agony of mind his companions are putting him through; when the door finally opens, what happens next? a.
Garcin falls out the door into an abyss b.
Inez jumps through and disappears into the dark c.
Estelle takes a leap into the outside nothingness d.
all three of them separately refuse to go through the door but choose to stay with each other 36. After this, in the next and final confrontation, Inez insists that, if Garcin has any hope for resolution, he must: a.
find arguments to convince her and change her thoughts about him b.
push her through the door c.
stab her with the paper-knife d.
drown her in the pit of fire 37. The play ends with Garcin finally admitting to himself that he is in hell, and Estelle finally admitting to herself that she is dead forever, and Inez stabbing herself. Along the way, Garcin claims that hell itself is: a.
something that has already happened on earth b.
something that starts happening when you are alive c.
a stage on the way to heaven (salvation) d.
other people