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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Chris found some funny plants out on the rocks in the ocean, but it turned out the plants were really animals called
(a) sea anemones.
(b) jellyfish.
(c) barnacles.
(d) lichens.

2. 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 Greek.
(d) the professor of Chinese.

3. The forest near the bottom of the canyon consists mainly of
(a) broad-leafed trees.
(b) shrubs.
(c) aspen.
(d) pine.

4. When Chris falls down, he
(a) gets angry.
(b) begs to go back.
(c) starts crying.
(d) is injured.

5. Quality is
(a) what others like.
(b) what you like.
(c) a trait like hardness or color.
(d) a measure of worth or goodness.

6. Value is all the following EXCEPT
(a) an irrelevant off-shoot of structure.
(b) the preintellectual awareness.
(c) the predecessor of structure.
(d) the leading edge of reality.

7. The Narrator is so busy with his Chautauqua that he
(a) gets separated from Chris.
(b) falls part way down the mountain.
(c) does not interact with Chris.
(d) allows Chris to get hurt.

8. The Narrator has tried to reassemble the fragments of Phaedrus' thinking by
(a) sorting through many boxes of papers.
(b) asking lots of questions of his wife and friends.
(c) jotting down everything he knows or is told.
(d) going every place Phaedrus went.

9. Phaedrus broke the syndrome of "nothing to say" by having students write about
(a) the idea of quality.
(b) themselves.
(c) the main street of Bozeman.
(d) the back of their thumb.

10. Why does Chris think Chicago was better?
(a) His father was gone all the time.
(b) He had more friends in the city.
(c) His father told stories and played games with him.
(d) His father was in the hospital.

11. When Quality is subtracted from the world as Phaedrus knew it, he discovered that the fine arts disappeared. What else disappeared?
(a) values and purpose
(b) work and sports
(c) science and technology
(d) entertainment and flavors

12. The Sophists taught
(a) ethical absolutes.
(b) oneness with God and nature.
(c) relativity in all ethical ideas.
(d) man is the source of all things.

13. The Professor of Philosophy tried to
(a) scare the students into reading and studying.
(b) shame the student who asked the question.
(c) warn all the students not to aks questsions.
(d) cut Phaedrus down.

14. Dialectic pertains to all the following EXCEPT
(a) a conversation between two persons.
(b) a part of rhetoric.
(c) a method for arriving at truth.
(d) the nature of the dialogue.

15. When Quality is subtracted, all EXCEPT the following are true:
(a) Purely intellectual pursuits are fairly unaffected.
(b) The world cannot function.
(c) Life becomes very dull and uninteresting.
(d) Rationality is essentially unchanged.

Short Answer Questions

1. A branch of philosophy concerned with the definition of Quality is known as

2. Which of the following did NOT draw up a system of geometry?

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

4. If Quality exists in the object,

5. Which is NOT a way in which the Narrator knows that Chris is exhausted?

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