PHIL 101 Exam Questions and Answers
Who is Cottard? ✔️✔️A smuggler, he is happy about the plague because it keeps the police
from catching him
Abstraction ✔️✔️Seeing things from a distance (in a haze)
What are both Rieux and Paneloux working towards? ✔️✔️Other people's salvation (Rieux -
physical, Paneloux - spiritual)
Paneloux's second sermon thesis ✔️✔️All things in life, including suffering, can serve a good
purpose through god, we have to decide if we really believe
Rieux's two mysteries ✔️✔️Mystery of faith and mystery of reason
Mystery of faith ✔️✔️God is less certain to Paneloux
Mystery of reason ✔️✔️Reason can't tell Rieux if Paneloux has the plague
What theme is present in the Stadium Situation ✔️✔️Efficiency
"I've always had the plague" ✔️✔️Tarrou
, "life as plague-stricken" ✔️✔️Tarrou
Tarrou's aim ✔️✔️Become a saint (not a hero)
Rieux's aim ✔️✔️Become a man
What is Tarrou's goal? ✔️✔️To follow the path of sympathy
Who dies of plague? ✔️✔️Tarrou and Rieux's wife
Rieux's three certainties ✔️✔️Love, exile, suffering
What could the 'real plague' be? ✔️✔️Our habit of denying our mortality
The Myth of Sisyphus ✔️✔️Human condemned by the gods to push a rock up a hill forever, he
never gives up, continues to strive, he isn't letting this own him
Cosmology ✔️✔️The study of the origins of things
Substance ✔️✔️The 'stuff' of the universe, the basic makeup of something, its internal order
Who is Cottard? ✔️✔️A smuggler, he is happy about the plague because it keeps the police
from catching him
Abstraction ✔️✔️Seeing things from a distance (in a haze)
What are both Rieux and Paneloux working towards? ✔️✔️Other people's salvation (Rieux -
physical, Paneloux - spiritual)
Paneloux's second sermon thesis ✔️✔️All things in life, including suffering, can serve a good
purpose through god, we have to decide if we really believe
Rieux's two mysteries ✔️✔️Mystery of faith and mystery of reason
Mystery of faith ✔️✔️God is less certain to Paneloux
Mystery of reason ✔️✔️Reason can't tell Rieux if Paneloux has the plague
What theme is present in the Stadium Situation ✔️✔️Efficiency
"I've always had the plague" ✔️✔️Tarrou
, "life as plague-stricken" ✔️✔️Tarrou
Tarrou's aim ✔️✔️Become a saint (not a hero)
Rieux's aim ✔️✔️Become a man
What is Tarrou's goal? ✔️✔️To follow the path of sympathy
Who dies of plague? ✔️✔️Tarrou and Rieux's wife
Rieux's three certainties ✔️✔️Love, exile, suffering
What could the 'real plague' be? ✔️✔️Our habit of denying our mortality
The Myth of Sisyphus ✔️✔️Human condemned by the gods to push a rock up a hill forever, he
never gives up, continues to strive, he isn't letting this own him
Cosmology ✔️✔️The study of the origins of things
Substance ✔️✔️The 'stuff' of the universe, the basic makeup of something, its internal order
