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  • 1. Who edited The Life of the Mind for publication after Arendt's death?
A) Socrates
B) Ronald Beiner
C) Mary McCarthy
D) Jerome Kohn
  • 2. In what year was Hannah Arendt born?
A) 1958
B) 1973
C) 1975
D) 1906
  • 3. The Life of the Mind was intended to consist of how many parts?
A) Four
B) Two
C) Five
D) Three
  • 4. Which of Arendt's previous works explored the vita activa?
A) Responsibility and Judgement
B) Between Past and Future
C) The Human Condition
D) Eichmann in Jerusalem
  • 5. Where did Arendt deliver the Gifford Lectures?
A) University of Toronto
B) The New School
C) University of Aberdeen
D) Harvard University
  • 6. What phrase did Arendt use to describe her approach to thinking?
A) Two-in-one
B) Vita contemplativa
C) Banality of evil
D) Denken ohne Geländer
  • 7. Which mental activity was intended for the third part of the trilogy?
A) Thinking
B) Judging
C) Willing
D) Believing
  • 8. What event occurred while Arendt was delivering the first lecture of the 'Willing' series?
A) She finished the manuscript for Judging
B) She published the first volume
C) She suffered a near-fatal heart attack
D) She retired from the New School
  • 9. Arendt described the 'banality of evil' in which work?
A) Between Past and Future
B) Eichmann in Jerusalem
C) The Life of the Mind
D) The Human Condition
  • 10. What was in Arendt's typewriter the evening she died?
A) The final chapter of the second part
B) A letter to Mary McCarthy
C) The first page of the third part
D) A preface to her collected works
  • 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) The teacher and the student
B) The state and the citizen
C) The past and the future
D) Oneself
  • 13. Where did Arendt hold a visiting professorship in 1974?
A) University of Toronto
B) The New School
C) Yale University
D) University of Aberdeen
  • 14. What does Arendt identify as the 'two-in-one' of thought?
A) The dual nature of the human spirit
B) The balance between thinking and acting
C) The combination of willing and judging
D) The state where one renders an account to oneself
  • 15. Which volume was published by Jerome Kohn in 2003?
A) The Life of the Mind
B) Responsibility and Judgement
C) Eichmann in Jerusalem
D) Between Past and Future
  • 16. How many parts was The Life of the Mind originally planned in?
A) Three
B) Four
C) Two
D) One
  • 17. Who provided the epigraph that Arendt used at the beginning of The Life of the Mind?
A) Goethe
B) Eichmann
C) Cato the Elder
D) Kant
  • 18. What was written for the 'Judgement' section at the time of Arendt's death?
A) An introduction and a summary
B) A full manuscript
C) Nothing at all
D) Two epigraphs
  • 19. Which Roman figure is contrasted with Eichmann regarding their ability to judge?
A) Caesar
B) Augustus
C) Cato
D) Cicero
  • 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) Arendt's earlier essays
D) Kant's political philosophy
  • 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) Mastering the spells of the earth
D) Learning the secrets of the gods
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