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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.
Multiple Choice Questions
1. What subject did Phaedrus teach at the university?
(a) 'rithmetic
(b) Rhetoric
(c) 'riting
(d) Reading
2. Who introduces the topic of ghost stories?
(a) John
(b) Sylvia
(c) The Narrator
(d) Chris
3. How does the Narrator know a storm is coming?
(a) He sees lightening flashing on the horizon.
(b) He feels the cool wind against his cheek.
(c) He sees fast-moving thick, black clouds sweeping across the landscape.
(d) He sees the edge of storm clouds on the horizon as they top a small hill.
4. It was necessary for Phaedrus to have animal courage to
(a) escape the shell of rationality.
(b) fight the wolf he met.
(c) escape mental illness.
(d) endure Annihilation ECS.
5. The purpose of Annihilation ECS was
(a) to create a new personality.
(b) to gel a personality.
(c) to solidify a personality.
(d) to liquidate a personality.
6. The group crossed the Missouri River at
(a) Mobridge
(b) Bismarck
(c) Mudbridge
(d) Hague
7. A priori knowledge is an idea that was proposed by
(a) Northrop.
(b) Hume.
(c) Kant.
(d) Copernicus.
8. In his teaching, an essay was to be developed from the basis of
(a) elementary logic.
(b) following a pattern.
(c) elementary stimulus-response theory.
(d) elementary, rational thought.
9. What does the Narrator think he should be doing if he were a novelist instead of a Chautauqua orator?
(a) communicating with John, Sylvia and Chris
(b) developing the characters of John, Sylvia and Chris
(c) talking more to Chris
(d) interacting more with John
10. The Narrator says that some cultures believe in ghosts in the same way that other cultures
(a) believe in eye contact.
(b) believe in evil spirits.
(c) believe in the law of gravity.
(d) believe the earth is round.
11. The travelers stay in cabins in Gardiner made by the owner who is a craftsman as evidenced by
(a) the many flowers planted around each cabin.
(b) the sign that is hung in the cabin.
(c) how old the couple is who own the cabins.
(d) the careful attention to detail in the windows, doors, and moldings.
12. Phaedrus gave up chasing the ghost of rationality and
(a) buried himself in his research and writing.
(b) went home to live with his parents and decide what to do.
(c) busied himself living a conventional life.
(d) began chasing the ghost of materialism.
13. John complains about how difficult it is to photograph the
(a) motorcycles.
(b) Narrator and Chris.
(c) town of Ellendale.
(d) prairie.
14. The kind of truth one seems to see out of the corner of one's eye or when the procedure goes haywire is called
(a) literal truth.
(b) bilateral truth.
(c) lateral truth.
(d) frontal truth.
15. The Narrator does not want to go faster than
(a) fifty miles per hour.
(b) sixty miles per hour.
(c) sixty-five miles per hour.
(d) forty-five miles per hour.
Short Answer Questions
1. The Narrator ended the trip to Canada on the motorcycle because
2. The ghost that Phaedrus pursued was
3. Sylvia is frightened by
4. Which of the following is NOT associated with underlying form?
5. The first part of the formal scientific method is to
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