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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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.

2. If a person's motorcycle backfires sometimes, what type of gumption trap would that be?
(a) Mu
(b) Muscular insensitivity
(c) Stuckness
(d) Intermettent failure

3. What does Chris want to know about his father?
(a) how he became a good mountain hiker.
(b) what he thinks about all the time.
(c) how he knows how to cook.
(d) what he thinks will happen at the end of the hike.

4. When the Narrator and Chris switched from a federal to a state highway, the scenery
(a) changed to high plateaus and canyons.
(b) changed to rolling hills and creeks.
(c) changed to old, weathered buildings surrounded by grass and wildflowers.
(d) changed to high-tech factories and shopping centers.

5. If Quality is subtracted from the marketplace,
(a) G.I. shoes would become unavailable.
(b) beverages would taste better.
(c) only basic, tasteless necessities would be carried by grocery stores.
(d) more tasteful foods would be available in grocery stores.

Short Answer Questions

1. When you are stuck

2. In the "train of knowledge" analogy

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

4. The Chairman skips Socrates' description of

5. When Quality is subtracted, all EXCEPT the following are true:

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