CAT Question of the Day Answer the following questions based on the information given below.
In his twenties, Palahniuk attended the University of Oregon's School of Journalism, graduating in 1986. While attending college he worked as an intern for National Public Radio member station KLCC in Eugene, Oregon. He moved to Portland soon afterwards. After writing for the local newspaper for a short while, he began working for Freightliner as a diesel mechanic, continuing in that job until his writing career took off. During that time, he also wrote manuals on fixing trucks and had a stint as a journalist (a job he did not return to until after he became a successful novelist). After casually attending a free, introductory seminar held by an organization called Landmark Education, Palahniuk quit his job as a journalist in 1988. Palahniuk performed volunteer work for a homeless shelter; later, he also volunteered at a hospice as an escort; he provided transportation for terminally ill people and brought them to support group meetings. He ceased volunteering upon the death of a patient to whom he had grown attached
What can we conclude about Palahniuk from the above passage? | OPTIONS | | |  | 1) | Palahniuk couldn't focus on the same thing for too long – hence he jumped jobs. | | | 2) | Palahniuk had to do odd-jobs to make money on the side until his writing career took off. | | | 3) | Palahniuk was a jack-of-all-trades and master of none. | | | 4) | Palahniuk was easily influenced. | | | 5) | Palahniuk was a bad journalist. |
Tip of the Day An important factor in solving Jumbled Sentences questions is learning to identify sentence pairs that can definitely be said to be consecutive. Look for links in sentences, connectors, and connecting ideas. Last year's Question of the day (03-Aug-11) Nietzsche discusses Christianity, one of the major topics in his work, at length in the context of the problem of nihilism in his notebooks, in a chapter entitled 'European Nihilism'. Here he states that the Christian moral doctrine provides people with intrinsic value, belief in God (which justifies the evil in the world) and a basis for objective knowledge. In this sense, in constructing a world where objective knowledge is possible, Christianity is an antidote against a primal form of nihilism, against the despair of meaninglessness. However, it is exactly the element of truthfulness in Christian doctrine that is its undoing: in its drive towards truth, Christianity eventually finds itself to be a construct, which leads to its own dissolution. It is therefore that Nietzsche states that we have outgrown Christianity "not because we lived too far from it, rather because we lived too close."
Why does Nietzsche state that we have outgrown Christianity?
| OPTIONS | | | | | 1) | We've outgrown Christianity because it protects you against a primal form of nihilism by instilling the belief that not all is meaningless. | | | 2) | We have outgrown Christianity because it doesn't believe in Nihilism. | | | 3) | We have outgrown Christianity because it is an antidote against the primal form of nihilism, and nihilism is the way forward. | | | 4) | We've outgrown Christianity because it believes in truthfulness – a belief that falters in the reality of its own construct. | | | 5) | We've outgrown Christianity because we've lived too far from it and not close enough. |
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