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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. 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) science and technology
(c) entertainment and flavors
(d) work and sports

4. The first phase of Phaedrus' exploration into the meaning of the term Quality was
(a) a very unhappy phase.
(b) a rigid and structured phase.
(c) a frustrating and maddening phase.
(d) a creative and fulfilling phase.

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

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

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

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

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

10. The Narrator compares climbing the mountain to
(a) a maze to find one's way through life.
(b) a hardship to be overcome.
(c) a higher society to be reached.
(d) a spiritual goal to be reached.

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

12. Without the Sutherlands
(a) Chris and his dad talk more.
(b) Chris becomes withdrawn.
(c) it is very lonely.
(d) it is more peaceful.

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

14. 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.

15. A sarcophagus is
(a) a dinosaur.
(b) a room in an insane asylum.
(c) a limestone coffin.
(d) a piece of striated muscle.

Short Answer Questions

1. Value is all the following EXCEPT

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

3. If Quality exists in the object,

4. Phaedrus decided that schools teach people to

5. Phaedrus was admitted to the program, but

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