Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance Quiz | Eight Week Quiz B

Robert M. Pirsig
This set of Lesson Plans consists of approximately 216 pages of tests, essay questions, lessons, and other teaching materials.

Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance Quiz | Eight Week Quiz B

Robert M. Pirsig
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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 8, 9, and 10.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Which of the following is the best description of Phaedrus?
(a) Phaedrus was intelligent, focused, and courageous.
(b) Phaedrus was brilliant, focused on his work, and insensitive to people.
(c) Phaedrus was tall, darkly complected, and highly intelligent.
(d) Phaedrus was secretive, aloof, and seemingly cold to others.

2. The Narrator remembers going to a party and drinking too much. He lies down in a back room of the house and wakes up
(a) riding a motorcycle.
(b) in a heart hospital.
(c) at home.
(d) in an insane hospital.

3. The mechanics where the Narrator had taken his motorcycle when it was seizing did not fix it properly since they
(a) did not have the proper tools.
(b) were dancing and singing along with the radio.
(c) did not read the manual for that bike.
(d) did not care enough to learn to do it right.

4. The Narrator makes four observations about his lists of motorcycle parts. Which of the following is NOT one of those observations?
(a) The motorcycle is nearly impossible to understand by lists unless you already know how one works.
(b) The rider or operator is missing.
(c) There are no value judgments.
(d) The observer is missing.

5. Riding in a car is different from riding on a motorcycle because
(a) everything goes by so fast it makes you dizzy to look out the window.
(b) the ride in the car is very smooth while the ride on the motorcycle is very bumpy.
(c) riding in a car is like watching a movie you don't care about.
(d) when you are riding in a car you are always in a compartment looking at a frame like seeing the world on TV.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. As the Narrator rides past the marshes he sees

3. The predicted results of scientific inquiry and the actual results of scientific inquiry are

4. Secondary roads are preferred by the Narrator because

5. Sylvia begins to ask questions about Chris'

(see the answer key)

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