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TRUE/FALSE
1. The question “What is the meaning of life?” is hard to answer because the word “meaning” is itself
ambiguous.
A. True
B. False
2. The question about the meaning of life most typically arises during happy times, when we have the
luxury of time to reflect.
A. True
B. False
3. Sometimes, the meaning of something (a sign, a word) is what it refers to. If the meaning of one’s life
refers to something, then what would give one’s life meaning would be contextual, as in linguistic
reference.
A. True
B. False
4. People who think that children are the basis for a meaningful life tend to project abstractly into the
future, to a utopia, a place of total peace and happiness.
A. True
B. False
5. Religious believers like Saint Augustine and Martin Luther asked questions about the meaning of life
less persistently than atheists.
A. True
B. False
6. Believing that the meaning of one’s life is found in an afterlife implies that one views this life as the
basis of one’s significance.
A. True
B. False
9. The images we use to talk about life define the meaning we find, or don’t find, in it.
A. True
B. False
10. If life is a game, then like a game its significance is located entirely in the end or goal, which is
winning.
A. True
B. False
11. German philosophers in the nineteenth century talked about life being a Bildungsroman, a story of
personal development.
A. True
B. False
13. The sixteenth century Dutch philosopher Erasmus wrote a book called In Praise of Folly, which was a
celebration of human foolishness.
A. True
B. False
14. The belief that the meaning of your life is a “calling” is one expression of the idea of “Life as a
Mission.”
A. True
B. False
15. Living one’s life as a work of art suggests that what counts is found more in the results than in the
activities that produce it.
A. True
B. False
17. Someone who views life as a disease presupposes some conception of health.
A. True
B. False
19. Altruism is the acting for the benefit of oneself, even to the exclusion of others’ benefit.
A. True
B. False
20. For the Greek heroes, honor was less important than other values, like compassion.
A. True
B. False
21. German philosophers in the nineteenth century who embraced the idea that life is a Bildungsroman
would be inclined to think that the meaning of life is learning.
A. True
B. False
22. The vision of Sisyphus pushing his rock up the mountain only to have it fall back again is a good
image for the conviction that life is suffering.
A. True
B. False
24. Much of our language of “relationships” conjures up a picture of two lonely souls trying to “get
through” to one another.
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