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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.
Multiple Choice Questions
1. The stand of pines where the group is camping is the home of
(a) fire ants.
(b) mosquitoes.
(c) bats.
(d) wolves.
2. Chris usually reflects the mood of the Narrator in his
(a) concern and worry.
(b) mood and actions.
(c) reactions to others.
(d) moodiness and depression.
3. A person consists of a personality,
(a) flesh and blood.
(b) bones and flesh.
(c) bones and garments.
(d) flesh and legal statistics.
4. The Narrator calls unnatural the divorce of
(a) teaching from sculpting.
(b) technology from science.
(c) art from writing.
(d) art from technology.
5. The high meadow is welcome like
(a) the promise of a new beginning.
(b) the promised land.
(c) a rainbow.
(d) the rain in the spring.
6. 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) did not read the manual for that bike.
(d) were dancing and singing along with the radio.
7. John wants to camp
(a) at a park in the middle of Lemmon.
(b) on the bank of the Missouri River.
(c) at a campground to the south of Lemmon.
(d) at a reservoir near Lemmon.
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) put a cotter pin into the chain.
(c) hammered the adjusting bolt to tighten the chain.
(d) didn't know where to start.
9. The range of human knowledge today creates
(a) specialization.
(b) induction.
(c) an fragmented society.
(d) generation gaps.
10. At the summit of the mountain, the Narrator gets out
(a) his tools to adjust his chain.
(b) his long underwear and jacket.
(c) his camera.
(d) his tools and adjusts the carburetors.
11. Man is a passive observer or a "blank tablet" was first proposed by
(a) Copernicus.
(b) Hume.
(c) Aristotle.
(d) Kant.
12. Einstein said:
(a) Knowledge comes from man. Man provides the hypotheses.
(b) Scientific knowledge comes from nature. Nature provides the hypotheses.
(c) The number of rational hypotheses that can explain any given phenomenon is infinite, increasing as more are tested.
(d) Knowledge comes from intuition, resting on sympathetic understanding of experience.
13. The ghost that Phaedrus pursued was
(a) the ghost of technology.
(b) the ghost of modern science.
(c) the ghost of rationality.
(d) the ghost of Western thought.
14. The parts of a motorcycle form a
(a) table.
(b) hypothesis.
(c) scientific method.
(d) hierarchy.
15. The lecture delivered by Phaedrus in chapter 13 referenced
(a) a church building which had been turned into a police station.
(b) a church whose minister was Socrates.
(c) a church building with an electric beer sign over the front entrance.
(d) a college dormitory with an electric beer sign over the front entrance.
Short Answer Questions
1. The Narrator remembers going to a party and drinking too much. He lies down in a back room of the house and wakes up
2. The course sections Phaedrus most often taught included
3. The back road route of traveling is better than the highway for all the following reasons EXCEPT
4. Why did Chris and the Narrator get soaked on their trip to Canada?
5. Annihilation ECS consisted of
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