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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. According to Faust, what is external, objective knowledge good for?
(a) Getting into college.
(b) Reading a map.
(c) Writing a book.
(d) Finding the truth.

2. What does the author suggest is the issue with communicating at the start of Part 2?
(a) Egos.
(b) Hearing.
(c) Demons.
(d) Technology.

3. How does the moth try to help the other animal in "Round in Circles"?
(a) He tries to show a different perspective.
(b) He sounds an alarm.
(c) He holds open the window.
(d) He sings.

4. What distracts the moth in ""Round in Circles"?
(a) A car.
(b) A bright light.
(c) A human.
(d) A closet filled with coats.

5. Who warns the lamb about her friends' advice?
(a) The farmer.
(b) Her mother.
(c) A member of the forest community.
(d) Her father.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the baby bird in "Soaring" want for himself?

2. What does Edwin H. Friedman claim "real figures of speech" are based on?

3. What is John's nervous condition?

4. What happens when the doctor in "The Power of Belief" performs his test?

5. What, according to Cassandra, does the human race rely on?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does the report in "Raising Cain: A Case History of the First Family" study?

2. Why does baby bird worry his parents so much?

3. What is Edwin H. Friedman's relationship to his characters?

4. How does Edwin H. Friedman feel towards his publishers and editors and why?

5. How does the doctor try to break the man's belief in "The Power of Belief"? What is the result of the attempt?

6. What does Oedipus argue is the best way for humans to find truth?

7. Why are Billy's parents afraid of him in the story "Projection"?

8. What do Faust and Oedipus debate in the Interlude?

9. What do the birds in "Soaring" believe is their greatest accomplishment?

10. Why does Billy act the way he does in "Projection" and why is he frustrated with his parents?

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