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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. As the Narrator rides past the marshes he sees
(a) a red-winged blackbird.
(b) a pin-tail duck.
(c) a robin.
(d) a ring-tailed pheasant.

2. Why did Chris and the Narrator get soaked on their trip to Canada?
(a) The storm came from the northeast.
(b) The rain was the result of a warm front.
(c) The Narrator forgot to dig a trench around their tent.
(d) The Narrator forgot to pack a tent.

3. The method of finding one's way through the hierarchies is by using
(a) intuition.
(b) the system.
(c) the scientific method.
(d) logic.

4. What does the Narrator think he should be doing if he were a novelist instead of a Chautauqua orator?
(a) interacting more with John
(b) developing the characters of John, Sylvia and Chris
(c) talking more to Chris
(d) communicating with John, Sylvia and Chris

5. Doctrinal differences among Taoism, Hinduism, and Buddhism
(a) have started many religious wars over the centuries.
(b) have never been verbalized.
(c) are similar those among Islam, Judaism, and Christianity.
(d) are not worth fighting Holy Wars.

Short Answer Questions

1. The Narrator remembers going to a party and drinking too much. He lies down in a back room of the house and wakes up

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

3. Why does the Narrator almost leave the building with Chris?

4. Phaedrus served in the

5. The purpose of Annihilation ECS was

Short Essay Questions

1. Goethe's poem captures what may be at stake for the Narrator and Chris on this trip or at this point in their lives. Use the discussion of Chris, the ideas of Phaedrus up to this point, and what is said about the poem to explain how the poem captures what is going on in the Narrator's mind.

2. The Narrator says that the ghost Phaedrus pursued appeared incoherent and meaningless, causing the most normal of everyday acts to seem slightly mad. What everyday assumptions and purposes caused this?

3. What does the Narrator mean by referring to Phaedrus' reading of philosophers as the high country of the world of thought?

4. What types of things are so dependent on Quality that they would be significantly changed or nonexistent if Quality did not exist?

5. The Narrator chose a trip with various types of terrain as the backdrop for this book on philosophy. Every description is in the book for a reason. What does the 11,000 foot mountain summit represent? What do the switchcbacks correspond to the thinking being done at that time? Do the paved roads represent something? If so, what? What does the shining wall across the misty harbor seem to denote?

6. Why is the Narrator apprehensive about seeing DeWeese?

7. How do we know that the Narrator has been on this road, in this town, or at this motel before?

8. Sentence fragments are exchanged between the Narrator and the young woman who comes into the classroom. What do we learn about rumors concerning Phaedrus (the Narrator) that circulated in the English department? What do you think is the young woman's role at the university at this time?

9. What were the possible reasons John did not want the Narrator to use a beer can to shim his motorcycle handlebars?

10. In what ways is the phrase "to travel is better than to arrive" appropriate to the Narrator's trip to Bozeman?

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