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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Which of the following is NOT one of the levels of inner peace of mind?
(a) Mental quietness
(b) Value quietness
(c) Physical quietness
(d) Spiritual quietness

3. If a person's motorcycle backfires sometimes, what type of gumption trap would that be?
(a) Muscular insensitivity
(b) Mu
(c) Stuckness
(d) Intermettent failure

4. The three rhetorical options Phaedrus had available to him included all EXCEPT
(a) impale himself on one of the bull's horns.
(b) throw sand in the bull's eyes.
(c) attempt to sing the bull to sleep.
(d) refuse to enter the arena with the bull.

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

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

7. When the student could not write an essay on Bozeman, Phaedrus told her to
(a) write an essay on the main street of Bozeman.
(b) write an essay on the United States.
(c) leave the class and not come back until it was written.
(d) write an essay on one brick.

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

9. Phaedrus decided that schools teach people to
(a) learn.
(b) initiate.
(c) create.
(d) imitate.

10. When you are stuck
(a) you are at the back end of the train of knowledge on the track to reality.
(b) you are the engineer of the train of knowledge seeing far into the distance.
(c) the train of knowledge is of no help to you.
(d) you are at the front end of the train of knowledge, at the track of reality.

11. If Quality exists in the object,
(a) scientific instruments should be able to detect and measure it.
(b) it is just a fancy name for a bunch of nonsense.
(c) Phaedrus should be able to define it.
(d) people should be able to see and feel it.

12. All of the following are synonyms for "metaphysical" EXCEPT
(a) technolgical.
(b) philosophical.
(c) supernatural.
(d) theoretical.

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

14. What does Chris want to know about his father?
(a) what he thinks about all the time.
(b) how he became a good mountain hiker.
(c) what he thinks will happen at the end of the hike.
(d) how he knows how to cook.

15. 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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What does the Narrator really want to do with the shadowy figure in his dreams?

3. Phaedrus was a student at

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

5. The person whose philosophy seemed to fit closely to the other side of Phaedrus' philosophy was

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