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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who suffered the most from Phaedrus' isolation?
(a) his parents
(b) his son
(c) his wife and family
(d) his brothers and sister

2. Who are the four people riding motorcycles on a journey?
(a) The Narrator, Chris Sutherland, John Sutherland, Sylvia
(b) Chris, his father the Narrator, John Sutherland, his wife Sylvia Sutherland
(c) John, Sylvia, Chris, Buddha
(d) John Sutherland, his son Chris, the Narrator, his wife Sylvia

3. How does the Narrator know a storm is coming?
(a) He sees fast-moving thick, black clouds sweeping across the landscape.
(b) He sees lightening flashing on the horizon.
(c) He feels the cool wind against his cheek.
(d) He sees the edge of storm clouds on the horizon as they top a small hill.

4. John wants to camp
(a) on the bank of the Missouri River.
(b) at a park in the middle of Lemmon.
(c) at a reservoir near Lemmon.
(d) at a campground to the south of Lemmon.

5. John complains about how difficult it is to photograph the
(a) motorcycles.
(b) prairie.
(c) Narrator and Chris.
(d) town of Ellendale.

6. The Narrator does not want to go faster than
(a) sixty-five miles per hour.
(b) forty-five miles per hour.
(c) fifty miles per hour.
(d) sixty miles per hour.

7. What subject did Phaedrus teach at the university?
(a) Reading
(b) Rhetoric
(c) 'riting
(d) 'rithmetic

8. When the Narrator found that the thread was stripped in the chain adjustment, he
(a) used the axle nut to tighten the chain.
(b) hammered the adjusting bolt to tighten the chain.
(c) put a cotter pin into the chain.
(d) didn't know where to start.

9. How many motorcycles are involved in this trip?
(a) 1 motorcycle
(b) 4 motorcycles
(c) 3 motorcycles
(d) 2 motorcycles

10. 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) did not care enough to learn to do it right.
(c) were dancing and singing along with the radio.
(d) did not read the manual for that bike.

11. The Narrator feels apprehensive about
(a) meeting the DeWeeses.
(b) introducing John and Sylvia to the DeWeeses.
(c) spending the night in a cabin.
(d) riding through Yellowstone Park.

12. 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) in an insane hospital.
(b) in a heart hospital.
(c) at home.
(d) riding a motorcycle.

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

14. The travelers stay in cabins in Gardiner made by the owner who is a craftsman as evidenced by
(a) how old the couple is who own the cabins.
(b) the sign that is hung in the cabin.
(c) the many flowers planted around each cabin.
(d) the careful attention to detail in the windows, doors, and moldings.

15. Sylvia is frightened by
(a) the Narrator's bike rolling in the ditch.
(b) a truck with a trailer in their lane.
(c) a cardboard carton on the road.
(d) the gravel on the side of the road.

Short Answer Questions

1. John is interested in

2. The real university according to Phaedrus

3. The kind of truth one seems to see out of the corner of one's eye or when the procedure goes haywire is called

4. The Narrator calls unnatural the divorce of

5. DeWeese had not like the "Church of Minorities" because

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