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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

10. 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

11. The second phase of Phaedrus' exploration into the meaning of Quality included all EXCEPT
(a) an large hierarchical structure of thought.
(b) a nervous breakdown.
(c) the loss of everything tangible in his life.
(d) a trip to the mountains for rest and relaxation.

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

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. The Narrator tells a story about camping in the mountains and being surprised by a

3. Although Phaedrus was sure he had found the right Ph.D. program, he discovered that his thesis idea was opposed to the views of

4. In many classrooms today, you will hear teachers who name, divide, subdivide, interrelate, and establish "principles" and study "methods" as if they are speaking with the voice of

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

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