Study Notes Dated : 2006-03-16

Short Answer Type Questions

Question 1:
If your mind were an island, what would it look like?
Answer :
That all who are happy are equally happy is not true. A peasant and a philosopher
may be equally satisfied, but not equally happy. A small drinking glass and a large
one may be equally full, but the large one holds more than the small.

Question 2:
What is the most annoying habit someone can have?
Answer :
Every government is run by liars and nothing they say should be believed.

Question 3:
What was your first smartphone? How did you feel when you got it?
Answer :
ELEGY, n. A composition in verse, in which, without employing any of the methods of
humor, the writer aims to produce in the reader's mind the dampest kind of
dejection.

Question 4:
What movie scene choked you up the most?
Answer :
EXCEPTION, n. A thing which takes the liberty to differ from other things of its
class, as an honest man, a truthful woman, etc.

Question 5:
What was the best invention of the last 50 years?
Answer :
When a true genius appears in this world, you may know him by this sign, that the
dunces are all in confederacy against him.

Question 6:
What do you like to do in the spring?
Answer :
One of the advantages of having lived a long time is that you can often remember
when you had it worse. I am grateful to have lived long enough to have known some
of the blessings of adversity.

Question 7:
What weird or useless talent do you have?
Answer :
If you want to learn about the whole government and how it operates, the
Appropriations Committee is the best place to learn it.

Question 8:
What is the most annoying thing about your phone?
Answer :
The man who is calm does not selfishly isolate himself from the world, for he is
intensely interested in all the concerns the welfare of humanity. His calmness is
but a Holy of Holies into which he can retire from the world to get strength to
live in the world. He realizes that the full glory of individuality, the crowning
of his self-control is the majesty of calmness.

Question 9:
When people make mistakes about food (especially foreign food), do you feel the
need to correct them? (i.e.\u00a0sushi \/ sashimi\u00a0or\u00a0stromboli \/
calzone)
Answer :
We'll do all right if we can capitalize on our mistakes.

Question 10:
What was your least favorite job that you've ever had?
Answer :
Everything looks impossible for the people who never try anything.