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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. Phaedrus discovered that the science he'd once thought of as the whole world of knowledge is
(a) a natural continuation of the question that started him in science.
(b) only a branch of philosophy.
(c) not cared about at all by Koreans.
(d) theoretic science.

4. Why does the Narrator almost leave the building with Chris?
(a) He sees how frightened Chris is.
(b) He is afraid he will see Phaedrus.
(c) He sees someone he doesn't want to talk with.
(d) He hears a car go by.

5. Riding in a car is different from riding on a motorcycle because
(a) the ride in the car is very smooth while the ride on the motorcycle is very bumpy.
(b) riding in a car is like watching a movie you don't care about.
(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.

6. The Narrator does not feel the faster speeds are good because
(a) his rear tire is wearing badly and could blow out.
(b) the hills are dangerous at higher speeds.
(c) there are a lot of holes and broken places in the roads.
(d) the road is getting really hot.

7. The predicted results of scientific inquiry and the actual results of scientific inquiry are
(a) often unrelated to each other.
(b) hard to understand as being related.
(c) diametrically opposed.
(d) in sync with each other.

8. Einstein said:
(a) Scientific knowledge comes from nature. Nature provides the hypotheses.
(b) Knowledge comes from man. Man 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.

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

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

11. Secondary roads are preferred by the Narrator because
(a) he is able to get better directions from people on secondary roadsthan those on main roads.
(b) he enjoys kids waving to him when he rides by.
(c) he leaves them with a feeling of relaxation and enjoyment.
(d) he likes to have people look from their porches and wonder who he is.

12. What did he discover about his spark plugs?
(a) They were both quite dirty.
(b) One was broken.
(c) One was quite dirty, but the other was not.
(d) They both looked fine.

13. 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.

14. The Narrator ended the trip to Canada on the motorcycle because
(a) Chris got sick.
(b) The motorcycle was out of gas.
(c) It was raining too hard to ride a motorcycle.
(d) The motorcycle seized up.

15. A turning point in Phaedrus' life came about the time he saw
(a) a wall shining across a misty harbor.
(b) a double rainbow.
(c) his best friend die.
(d) a rice paddy from atop a mountain.

Short Answer Questions

1. The parts of a motorcycle form a

2. The first part of the formal scientific method is to

3. Doctrinal differences among Taoism, Hinduism, and Buddhism

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

5. John and Sylvia intensified their suffering by

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