Here is another test involving general knowledge, literature, conceits, deceits, surfeits, surplusage, &c....Once again, A is A, B is B, and....you can guess the rest. The difference here is that four Questions (A-D) will follow each statement and styled and worded in throroughly Modern Jargon. Therefore, if you are a member of 'Generation Y' and graduated from high school after 2000, you will probably do very well at this, indeed. (Postscript: Why is Olympic swimmer Natalie Coughlin pictured above? I have no idea!)
Well anyway, let's get started: (No texting, please!)
1. In GK Chesterton's "Everlasting Man", he adumbrates that 'cave-men' may or may have not actually lived in caves simply because of the drawings of animals, etc. found therein, and by implication, adumbrates that much evolutionary theory and 'anthropology' (this was in the early 20th century, but his adumbrations ring true today obviously) is based upon mere conjecture, unwarranted conclusions and simply false presuppositions which are themselves a product of a rationalistic, materialistic 'closed-system' universe.
Question A: How do you feel about this?
Question B: Does this make you mad? Happy? Glad? Sad?
Question C: Have you ever adumbrated anything? If so, when? Where? With who?
Question D: How did it make you feel to adumbrate?
2. In George Bernard Shaw's "Man and Superman", the character of the devil is quoted as describing John Milton's "Paradise Lost" as "a very long poem which no one has ever read all the way through."
Question A: How do you feel about this?
Question B: Do you like it?
Question C: Have you ever read anything all the way through?
Question D: Does this "float your boat?"
3. In "The Oak and the Calf", the late great Alexander Solzheinitsyn movingly describes his literary career of documenting both in fiction and non-fiction, the totalitarian horror of the early and mid 20th century Soviet Union:
If I had given in to common sense, once, twice, ten times, my achievement as a
writer would have been incomparably smaller. But I had gone on writing-as a
bricklayer, in overcrowded prison huts, in transit jails without so much as a
pencil, when I was dying of cancer, in an exile's hovel after a double teaching
shift. I had let nothing-dangers, hindrances, the need for rest- interrupt
my writing, and only because of that could I say at fifty-five that I how had
no more than twenty years of work to get though, and had put the rest behind
me. My petty interferences-people, children, housework, public demands
(but most of all, my own native undisciplined self)-bump against such
reality. I continue to pound my balled fist against my own soft soul and to
insist, No Excuses! No Excuses!
Question A: How does this make you feel?
Question B: Does this passage "rock your world?"
Question C: Does it make you feel "plugged in?"
Question D: Have you also "been there and done that?"
4. Speaking of Solzhenitysn, one Russian critic stated that his works were "more
dangerous" to the Soviet regime than "those of Pasternak (Boris)", since "Pasternak
was a man divorced from life, while Solzhenitsyn, with his animated, militant,ideological temperament, is a man of principle."
Question A: What's up with this?
Question B: Does this have any relevance to you?
Question C: Does this "turn you on?"
Question D: Have you ever heard of either man?
5. C.S. Lewis was very fond of Edmund Spenser's "The Fairy Queen" (written in the 16th century in England), and he once made the quaint observation that the best introduction one could have to such a work would be to have read it as a teenager between the ages of 12 and 16 in an old heavy illustrated folio edition, and on a
rainy day.
Question A: Does this make any sense to you?
Question B: Is this 'all good'?
Question C: Have you ever heard of Edmund Spenser?
Question D: Have you ever heard of C.S. Lewis?
6. The great philosopher Baruch Spinoza is known for making the observation that all principles of.......
ATTENTION: JULIAN ASSANGE OF WIKILEAKS, INC. HAS APPARENTLY STOLEN THE REST OF THIS TEST INFORMATION, SO THE TEST WILL THEREFORE END AT THIS TIME. THANK YOU FOR YOUR CONSIDERATION IN THIS MATTER.
`"It is by the art of studying little things that we attain as much comfort and alleviate as much misery as possible." - Dr. Samuel Johnson
Well anyway, let's get started: (No texting, please!)
1. In GK Chesterton's "Everlasting Man", he adumbrates that 'cave-men' may or may have not actually lived in caves simply because of the drawings of animals, etc. found therein, and by implication, adumbrates that much evolutionary theory and 'anthropology' (this was in the early 20th century, but his adumbrations ring true today obviously) is based upon mere conjecture, unwarranted conclusions and simply false presuppositions which are themselves a product of a rationalistic, materialistic 'closed-system' universe.
Question A: How do you feel about this?
Question B: Does this make you mad? Happy? Glad? Sad?
Question C: Have you ever adumbrated anything? If so, when? Where? With who?
Question D: How did it make you feel to adumbrate?
2. In George Bernard Shaw's "Man and Superman", the character of the devil is quoted as describing John Milton's "Paradise Lost" as "a very long poem which no one has ever read all the way through."
Question A: How do you feel about this?
Question B: Do you like it?
Question C: Have you ever read anything all the way through?
Question D: Does this "float your boat?"
3. In "The Oak and the Calf", the late great Alexander Solzheinitsyn movingly describes his literary career of documenting both in fiction and non-fiction, the totalitarian horror of the early and mid 20th century Soviet Union:
If I had given in to common sense, once, twice, ten times, my achievement as a
writer would have been incomparably smaller. But I had gone on writing-as a
bricklayer, in overcrowded prison huts, in transit jails without so much as a
pencil, when I was dying of cancer, in an exile's hovel after a double teaching
shift. I had let nothing-dangers, hindrances, the need for rest- interrupt
my writing, and only because of that could I say at fifty-five that I how had
no more than twenty years of work to get though, and had put the rest behind
me. My petty interferences-people, children, housework, public demands
(but most of all, my own native undisciplined self)-bump against such
reality. I continue to pound my balled fist against my own soft soul and to
insist, No Excuses! No Excuses!
Question A: How does this make you feel?
Question B: Does this passage "rock your world?"
Question C: Does it make you feel "plugged in?"
Question D: Have you also "been there and done that?"
4. Speaking of Solzhenitysn, one Russian critic stated that his works were "more
dangerous" to the Soviet regime than "those of Pasternak (Boris)", since "Pasternak
was a man divorced from life, while Solzhenitsyn, with his animated, militant,ideological temperament, is a man of principle."
Question A: What's up with this?
Question B: Does this have any relevance to you?
Question C: Does this "turn you on?"
Question D: Have you ever heard of either man?
5. C.S. Lewis was very fond of Edmund Spenser's "The Fairy Queen" (written in the 16th century in England), and he once made the quaint observation that the best introduction one could have to such a work would be to have read it as a teenager between the ages of 12 and 16 in an old heavy illustrated folio edition, and on a
rainy day.
Question A: Does this make any sense to you?
Question B: Is this 'all good'?
Question C: Have you ever heard of Edmund Spenser?
Question D: Have you ever heard of C.S. Lewis?
6. The great philosopher Baruch Spinoza is known for making the observation that all principles of.......
ATTENTION: JULIAN ASSANGE OF WIKILEAKS, INC. HAS APPARENTLY STOLEN THE REST OF THIS TEST INFORMATION, SO THE TEST WILL THEREFORE END AT THIS TIME. THANK YOU FOR YOUR CONSIDERATION IN THIS MATTER.
`"It is by the art of studying little things that we attain as much comfort and alleviate as much misery as possible." - Dr. Samuel Johnson
