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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. The Immortal Principle was NOT called
(a) air by Anaximenes.
(b) fire by Heraclitus.
(c) water by Thales.
(d) rock by Piney.

2. In the "train of knowledge" analogy
(a) Romantic Knowledge is the leading edge of the engine.
(b) the train must be stopped for the analogy to work.
(c) Classic Knowledge is the train's caboose.
(d) Romantic Knowledge is the train track.

3. The most frustrating muscle trap is
(a) parts problems.
(b) inadequate tools.
(c) boredom.
(d) bad surroundings.

4. The Narrator and Chris are planning to hike for
(a) nine days.
(b) two days.
(c) five days.
(d) three days.

5. Phaedrus was a student at
(a) The University of Chicago, where he also taught.
(b) The University of Chicago but taught at the University of Illinois.
(c) The University of Illinois but taught at the University of Chicago.
(d) The University of Illinois, where he also taught.

6. Phaedrus used the number zero as a means of showing
(a) scientific materialism.
(b) reductio ad absurdum.
(c) classic formalism.
(d) subjective elimination.

7. Which of the following is NOT a description of a world without Quality?
(a) Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
(b) Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury
(c) Communist Russia
(d) 1984 by George Orwell

8. The Narrator becomes scared and decides NOT to
(a) sell the motorcycle in San Francisco.
(b) check himself into a hospital.
(c) send Chris home on a bus.
(d) ride the cycle back to Minnesota.

9. What Phaedrus has talked about as Quality, Socrates describes as
(a) the Oneness.
(b) the soul.
(c) the mind.
(d) the god-head.

10. Phaedrus was admitted to the program, but
(a) was thrown out of the program.
(b) was given a large scholarship.
(c) wanted into a different program.
(d) decided not to go to the school.

11. Which of the following did NOT draw up a system of geometry?
(a) Cointraire
(b) Lobachevski
(c) Euclid
(d) Riemann

12. The Chairman skips Socrates' description of
(a) the Truth.
(b) the One.
(c) the allegory.
(d) the horse.

13. At the end of the chapter,
(a) they descend into a canyon through a series of hairpin turns.
(b) they passed hundreds of antlike cars in the canyon.
(c) they climb up out of a canyon through a hundred hairpin turns.
(d) they stop to look into and across the enormous canyon.

14. The concept that "a thing exists if a world without it can't function normally" is which branch of philosophy?
(a) surrealism
(b) esthetics
(c) realism
(d) epistemology

15. Although Phaedrus was sure he had found the right Ph.D. program, he discovered that his thesis idea was opposed to the views of
(a) the professor of Philosophy.
(b) the professor of English.
(c) the professor of Chinese.
(d) the professor of Greek.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which of the following statements about modern technology was NOT part of the Narrator's feelings?

2. According to the Narrator, the twentieth century is characterized by

3. Signs that Phaedrus' life is unraveling include all EXCEPT

4. When Quality is subtracted from the world as Phaedrus knew it, he discovered that the fine arts disappeared. What else disappeared?

5. The idea of eliminating degrees and grades

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