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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

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

4. Poincaré's "subliminal self" corresponds to Phaedrus'
(a) preintellectual awareness.
(b) domain of consciousness.
(c) esthetic feeling.
(d) Intellectual reality.

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

6. The shadowy figure keeping the Narrator from opening the door in his dreams is
(a) Phaedrus.
(b) Chris' mother.
(c) the Narrator.
(d) Chris.

7. All institutions of the System are based on
(a) the ability to teach.
(b) the Church of Reason.
(c) intelligent beings.
(d) individual weakness.

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

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

10. The person whose philosophy seemed to fit closely to the other side of Phaedrus' philosophy was
(a) Jules Henri Poincaré
(b) Bertrand Russell
(c) Robinson Crusoe
(d) Henri Toulouse-Lautrec

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

12. Quality was kept undefined by definition in order to
(a) eliminate it from the analytical process.
(b) discover a cancer cure.
(c) quiet the estheticians.
(d) send a message to the English department.

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

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

15. The book that the Narrator tries to read with Chris is
(a) Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
(b) Walden by Henry David Thoreau
(c) Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury
(d) 1984 by George Orwell

Short Answer Questions

1. When the student could not write an essay on Bozeman, Phaedrus told her to

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

3. The Narrator becomes scared and decides NOT to

4. A sarcophagus is

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

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