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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. The real university according to Phaedrus
(a) is a legal corporation, which owns property and pays salaries to teaching staff and receives payment for teaching students.
(b) is a nonprofit corporation, which owns property and pays salaries to teaching staff and receives payment for teaching students.
(c) is a facility created and operated by a state legislature for the purpose of educating students.
(d) is a state of mind based on the heritage of rational thought, which is regenerated by a body of people.

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

3. Doctrinal differences among Taoism, Hinduism, and Buddhism
(a) are not worth fighting Holy Wars.
(b) have started many religious wars over the centuries.
(c) have never been verbalized.
(d) are similar those among Islam, Judaism, and Christianity.

4. Chris remembers looking for his dad and
(a) shopping in Bozeman.
(b) seeing a house with a funny roof.
(c) climbing the mountains.
(d) getting ice cream cones.

5. Riding along the marshes reminds the Narrator of
(a) the opening of duck season.
(b) how cold winters can be.
(c) the loneliness of the two-lane road.
(d) the heat and humidity of the summer.

6. What does Chris want to do as Chapter 4 ends (their second night)?
(a) never quit riding
(b) stop to eat
(c) go shopping
(d) camp out

7. A supersaturated solution will only crystallize when certain conditions are met unless there is a
(a) foreign object.
(b) violent shaking.
(c) seed crystal.
(d) sense of Quality.

8. In trying to explain what is wrong with the outdoor barbecue instructions, the Narrator expounds upon what is wrong with technology, which he says is
(a) its inability to explain things to the common man.
(b) its purposeless expansion laterally.
(c) its inability to encompass reason and feeling and relationships.
(d) the fact that they live in topsy-turvy times.

9. Man is a passive observer or a "blank tablet" was first proposed by
(a) Kant.
(b) Hume.
(c) Aristotle.
(d) Copernicus.

10. The Narrator calls unnatural the divorce of
(a) teaching from sculpting.
(b) art from writing.
(c) technology from science.
(d) art from technology.

11. The method of finding one's way through the hierarchies is by using
(a) the scientific method.
(b) intuition.
(c) logic.
(d) the system.

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

13. Sylvia begins to ask questions about Chris'
(a) headaches.
(b) stomach pains.
(c) temper tantrums.
(d) depression.

14. When they arrive in Ellendale for breakfast, it is
(a) 7:15 AM
(b) 7:30 AM
(c) 8:30 AM
(d) 6:30 AM

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Phaedrus' stage fright concerning classroom teaching appeared to students as

2. The Narrator makes four observations about his lists of motorcycle parts. Which of the following is NOT one of those observations?

3. The Narrator's tenseness and apprehension about going back to Bozeman are similar to the feelings felt by

4. Phaedrus' academic goal in University was to

5. Signs that they were approaching the High Plains included all EXCEPT

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