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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) does not interact with Chris.
(b) allows Chris to get hurt.
(c) gets separated from Chris.
(d) falls part way down the mountain.

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

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

4. Phaedrus was a student at
(a) The University of Chicago, where he also taught.
(b) The University of Chicago but taught at the University of Illinois.
(c) The University of Illinois, where he also taught.
(d) The University of Illinois but taught at the University of Chicago.

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

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

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

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

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

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(b) Chris becomes withdrawn.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

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

12. 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.

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

14. When Phaedrus reads "Phaedrus" he is impressed by
(a) the poetic imagery.
(b) the emotions expressed.
(c) the condemning spirit.
(d) the double meanings of the words.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. When you are stuck

2. When the Narrator and Chris switched from a federal to a state highway, the scenery

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. The Chairman skips Socrates' description of

5. The second phase of Phaedrus' exploration into the meaning of Quality included all EXCEPT

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