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The Life of the Mind
  • 1. Who edited The Life of the Mind for publication after Arendt's death?
A) Jerome Kohn
B) Mary McCarthy
C) Ronald Beiner
D) Socrates
  • 2. In what year was Hannah Arendt born?
A) 1975
B) 1973
C) 1906
D) 1958
  • 3. The Life of the Mind was intended to consist of how many parts?
A) Four
B) Three
C) Two
D) Five
  • 4. Which of Arendt's previous works explored the vita activa?
A) Eichmann in Jerusalem
B) The Human Condition
C) Responsibility and Judgement
D) Between Past and Future
  • 5. Where did Arendt deliver the Gifford Lectures?
A) University of Aberdeen
B) University of Toronto
C) The New School
D) Harvard University
  • 6. What phrase did Arendt use to describe her approach to thinking?
A) Banality of evil
B) Denken ohne Geländer
C) Two-in-one
D) Vita contemplativa
  • 7. Which mental activity was intended for the third part of the trilogy?
A) Believing
B) Thinking
C) Judging
D) Willing
  • 8. What event occurred while Arendt was delivering the first lecture of the 'Willing' series?
A) She retired from the New School
B) She finished the manuscript for Judging
C) She published the first volume
D) She suffered a near-fatal heart attack
  • 9. Arendt described the 'banality of evil' in which work?
A) The Life of the Mind
B) Between Past and Future
C) The Human Condition
D) Eichmann in Jerusalem
  • 10. What was in Arendt's typewriter the evening she died?
A) The first page of the third part
B) A preface to her collected works
C) The final chapter of the second part
D) A letter to Mary McCarthy
  • 11. Who edited the work on Kant's Political Philosophy published in 1982?
A) Jerome Kohn
B) Hannah Arendt
C) Ronald Beiner
D) Mary McCarthy
  • 12. According to the text, Arendt viewed thinking as a solitary dialogue between whom?
A) Oneself
B) The teacher and the student
C) The past and the future
D) The state and the citizen
  • 13. Where did Arendt hold a visiting professorship in 1974?
A) The New School
B) University of Aberdeen
C) Yale University
D) University of Toronto
  • 14. What does Arendt identify as the 'two-in-one' of thought?
A) The dual nature of the human spirit
B) The state where one renders an account to oneself
C) The combination of willing and judging
D) The balance between thinking and acting
  • 15. Which volume was published by Jerome Kohn in 2003?
A) Between Past and Future
B) Eichmann in Jerusalem
C) Responsibility and Judgement
D) The Life of the Mind
  • 16. How many parts was The Life of the Mind originally planned in?
A) Four
B) Three
C) Two
D) One
  • 17. Who provided the epigraph that Arendt used at the beginning of The Life of the Mind?
A) Goethe
B) Kant
C) Eichmann
D) Cato the Elder
  • 18. What was written for the 'Judgement' section at the time of Arendt's death?
A) Nothing at all
B) Two epigraphs
C) An introduction and a summary
D) A full manuscript
  • 19. Which Roman figure is contrasted with Eichmann regarding their ability to judge?
A) Cato
B) Augustus
C) Cicero
D) Caesar
  • 20. What was the source of the lectures used to fill in the missing 'Judgement' section?
A) Goethe's poetry
B) Cato's speeches
C) Kant's political philosophy
D) Arendt's earlier essays
  • 21. What does the Faust stanza suggest would make it worth being human?
A) Standing before nature as a man without magic
B) Achieving ultimate political victory
C) Learning the secrets of the gods
D) Mastering the spells of the earth
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