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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. Man is a passive observer or a "blank tablet" was first proposed by
(a) Copernicus.
(b) Aristotle.
(c) Kant.
(d) Hume.

2. In trying to explain what is wrong with the outdoor barbecue instructions, the Narrator expounds upon what is wrong with technology, which he says is
(a) the fact that they live in topsy-turvy times.
(b) its inability to explain things to the common man.
(c) its inability to encompass reason and feeling and relationships.
(d) its purposeless expansion laterally.

3. The Narrator remembers going to a party and drinking too much. He lies down in a back room of the house and wakes up
(a) in a heart hospital.
(b) in an insane hospital.
(c) at home.
(d) riding a motorcycle.

4. A person consists of a personality,
(a) bones and flesh.
(b) flesh and legal statistics.
(c) flesh and blood.
(d) bones and garments.

5. It was necessary for Phaedrus to have animal courage to
(a) escape mental illness.
(b) fight the wolf he met.
(c) escape the shell of rationality.
(d) endure Annihilation ECS.

Short Answer Questions

1. The Narrator characterized the college as a "teaching college" by which he meant

2. The Narrator's tenseness and apprehension about going back to Bozeman are similar to the feelings felt by

3. The building where Phaedrus taught was

4. Einstein said:

5. When the Narrator found that the thread was stripped in the chain adjustment, he

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. What hoped-for phenomena resulted from the abolition of grades in his classes?

3. 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?

4. How does the Narrator show that Phaedrus is becoming more and more mentally unbalanced (insane)? Trace some of the ideas and words that help us understand that he is losing touch with reality and thinks he is a type of god.

5. Which gumption trap is most often a problem for you and how to you overcome it?

6. What reasons did the Narrator (Phaedrus) have for feeling deep kinship with students who were failing his classes? How was he like them? How was he different from them?

7. What evidence is there that the Sutherlands and the Narrator disagree about technology?

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

9. Explain the Narrator's train of knowledge. What do the various parts represent? What cannot be represented in a way you can see it in the train analogy?

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

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