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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. The high meadow is welcome like
(a) the rain in the spring.
(b) the promise of a new beginning.
(c) the promised land.
(d) a rainbow.

2. Philosophy attempts to answer questions like:
(a) What is man's purpose? How are people related to nature?
(b) What is substance? What are time and space?
(c) What does it all mean? What's the purpose of all this?
(d) Who am I? Where did I come from?

3. The lecture delivered by Phaedrus in chapter 13 referenced
(a) a church building with an electric beer sign over the front entrance.
(b) a church building which had been turned into a police station.
(c) a college dormitory with an electric beer sign over the front entrance.
(d) a church whose minister was Socrates.

4. The Narrator does not feel the faster speeds are good because
(a) the hills are dangerous at higher speeds.
(b) the road is getting really hot.
(c) his rear tire is wearing badly and could blow out.
(d) there are a lot of holes and broken places in the roads.

5. Phaedrus was despondent about his inability to
(a) help his students really learn.
(b) teach what he believed.
(c) teach about quality.
(d) excite his students.

6. When they arrive in Ellendale for breakfast, it is
(a) 8:30 AM
(b) 7:15 AM
(c) 7:30 AM
(d) 6:30 AM

7. The main point of the lecture was that
(a) his classroom was the only place at the university where students could find truth.
(b) the location of the university has no application to the teaching of truth.
(c) the university, as the keeper of truth, must point students toward rational truth.
(d) the church is mandated to teach the truth and ignore threats against it.

8. The back road route of traveling is better than the highway for all the following reasons EXCEPT
(a) Back roads establish an indefinite time frame.
(b) It is easier to notice sensations on back roads.
(c) Back roads have a welcome day-to-day sameness.
(d) Back roads impart a sense of

9. The professor meant that the bombing of the Japanese cities
(a) was not a part of reality.
(b) caused much destruction from fire.
(c) was a great idea that ended that part of the war.
(d) helped people have better understanding.

10. Chris relates that whichever child saw their father first
(a) would get an ice cream cone.
(b) would receive a nickel.
(c) would get to ride in the front seat next time.
(d) would receive a quarter.

11. The ghost that Phaedrus pursued was
(a) the ghost of rationality.
(b) the ghost of technology.
(c) the ghost of modern science.
(d) the ghost of Western thought.

12. A supersaturated solution will only crystallize when certain conditions are met unless there is a
(a) violent shaking.
(b) foreign object.
(c) sense of Quality.
(d) seed crystal.

13. In all Oriental religions great value is placed upon
(a) the concept of logic as a means to final wisdom.
(b) the separation of self and other.
(c) the lack of all activity for the sake of meditation.
(d) the doctrine

14. In his teaching, an essay was to be developed from the basis of
(a) elementary, rational thought.
(b) elementary stimulus-response theory.
(c) elementary logic.
(d) following a pattern.

15. Phaedrus' stage fright concerning classroom teaching appeared to students as
(a) extreme intensity.
(b) an electrifying performance.
(c) passionate teaching.
(d) a reticence to speak.

Short Answer Questions

1. A topsy-turvy feeling of inadequacy results when

2. Which of the following is NOT a book the Narrator has brought on the trip?

3. The Narrator calls unnatural the divorce of

4. Phaedrus did not like Yellowstone Park because

5. The first part of the formal scientific method is to

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