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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 25 and 26.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. The Narrator tells a story about camping in the mountains and being surprised by a
(a) deer.
(b) partridge.
(c) moose.
(d) buffalo.

2. Einstein said:
(a) The number of rational hypotheses that can explain any given phenomenon is infinite, increasing as more are tested.
(b) Knowledge comes from man. Man provides the hypotheses.
(c) Knowledge comes from intuition, resting on sympathetic understanding of experience.
(d) Scientific knowledge comes from nature. Nature provides the hypotheses.

3. What did he discover about his spark plugs?
(a) One was quite dirty, but the other was not.
(b) One was broken.
(c) They were both quite dirty.
(d) They both looked fine.

4. Phaedrus' academic goal in University was to
(a) major in philosophy.
(b) major in chemistry.
(c) major in molecular biology.
(d) major in journalism.

5. The Narrator has tried to reassemble the fragments of Phaedrus' thinking by
(a) jotting down everything he knows or is told.
(b) sorting through many boxes of papers.
(c) going every place Phaedrus went.
(d) asking lots of questions of his wife and friends.

Short Answer Questions

1. Phaedrus broke the syndrome of "nothing to say" by having students write about

2. The forest near the bottom of the canyon consists mainly of

3. The hyped-up, supermodern style of life is another

4. The method of finding one's way through the hierarchies is by using

5. If a person's motorcycle backfires sometimes, what type of gumption trap would that be?

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