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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Above the timberline, the travelers see
(a) a mountain lake.
(b) twisted and stunted little pine trees.
(c) snowbanks and alpine meadows.
(d) broadleaf trees.

2. Phaedrus corresponded with the Northwest Regional Accrediting Association
(a) because he was unhappy with their method of accrediting the English department.
(b) because he believed that the university had violated accreditation requirements.
(c) to get letters proving he was a professor at an accredited university.
(d) to see of they would accredit a college he was starting.

3. It was necessary for Phaedrus to have animal courage to
(a) endure Annihilation ECS.
(b) escape mental illness.
(c) escape the shell of rationality.
(d) fight the wolf he met.

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

5. The group crossed the Missouri River at
(a) Mobridge
(b) Hague
(c) Mudbridge
(d) Bismarck

6. The main point of the lecture was that
(a) the university, as the keeper of truth, must point students toward rational truth.
(b) the church is mandated to teach the truth and ignore threats against it.
(c) his classroom was the only place at the university where students could find truth.
(d) the location of the university has no application to the teaching of truth.

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

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

9. The person who started him thinking about Quality was
(a) Sylvia
(b) Sarah
(c) Gennie
(d) DeWeese

10. In all Oriental religions great value is placed upon
(a) the concept of logic as a means to final wisdom.
(b) the doctrine
(c) the lack of all activity for the sake of meditation.
(d) the separation of self and other.

11. The theoretic component of man's existence corresponds to all EXCEPT
(a) classical thinking.
(b) Western thought.
(c) the scientific process.
(d) esthetics.

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

13. Phaedrus was despondent about his inability to
(a) teach what he believed.
(b) help his students really learn.
(c) teach about quality.
(d) excite his students.

14. The building where Phaedrus taught was
(a) granite with arches.
(b) red brick with pillars.
(c) yellow brick with framing timbers.
(d) dark brown brick with gables.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. A Chautauqua is

2. Phaedrus' academic goal in University was to

3. Annihilation ECS consisted of

4. Man is a passive observer or a "blank tablet" was first proposed by

5. The Narrator divides human understanding into

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