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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Phaedrus discovered that the science he'd once thought of as the whole world of knowledge is
(a) a natural continuation of the question that started him in science.
(b) theoretic science.
(c) not cared about at all by Koreans.
(d) only a branch of philosophy.

2. The predicted results of scientific inquiry and the actual results of scientific inquiry are
(a) hard to understand as being related.
(b) diametrically opposed.
(c) often unrelated to each other.
(d) in sync with each other.

3. A Chautauqua is
(a) A chat room on the internet for specialized discussions.
(b) A carnival that sets up on the streets of small American towns.
(c) A traveling tent-show meant to entertain and enlighten, once common in America.
(d) A Middle Eastern philosophy.

4. The lecture delivered by Phaedrus in chapter 13 referenced
(a) a church building which had been turned into a police station.
(b) a church building with an electric beer sign over the front entrance.
(c) a church whose minister was Socrates.
(d) a college dormitory with an electric beer sign over the front entrance.

5. Sylvia is frightened by
(a) a truck with a trailer in their lane.
(b) a cardboard carton on the road.
(c) the Narrator's bike rolling in the ditch.
(d) the gravel on the side of the road.

Short Answer Questions

1. Herried is designated a Western town by the Narrator because

2. Secondary roads are preferred by the Narrator because

3. The theoretic component of man's existence corresponds to all EXCEPT

4. The woman who finds him in his classroom

5. The ghost that Phaedrus pursued was

Short Essay Questions

1. How are the tasks that the Narrator and Chris perform related to the discourse of this chapter?

2. Based on what you have read through chapter 28, by way of predicting an outcome for the book, write a paragraph or two explaining a dream you think the Narrator will have near the end of the book.

3. How had Chris' YMCA camp experience seemingly made him ill-prepared for actual mountain hiking?

4. The Narrator talks about the set of boxes which define the components of a motorcycle. If you start at the top with "motorcycle" and work to the next level, you have "components" and "functions;" at the next level "components" are divided into "power assembly" and "running assembly." Where else do we find such hierarchies? Give examples of this pyramidal structure of hierarchical organization charts in business, science, and government. Can you think of others?

5. Summarize how Poincaré's ideas fit closely to Phaedrus' ideas--like two sides of a jigsaw puzzle.

6. How did the mechanics who had worked on the Narrator's motorcycle prove that caring about what you are doing is essential to doing it right?

7. Why do you suppose the Narrator calls Phaedrus' office a "find?" Do you think he did not know it was Phaedrus' office when he opened the door?

8. Explain one of his more radical teaching techniques.

9. What is a priori knowledge and how are time and space examples of a priori knowledge?

10. What does the Narrator mean by the term "squareness?"

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