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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. The idea of eliminating degrees and grades
(a) was embraced by the student body.
(b) was not popular among the faculty.
(c) became a demonstrator for persuasive writing.
(d) was enacted by the university.

2. When Quality is subtracted from the world as Phaedrus knew it, he discovered that the fine arts disappeared. What else disappeared?
(a) entertainment and flavors
(b) science and technology
(c) work and sports
(d) values and purpose

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

4. All of the following are synonyms for "metaphysical" EXCEPT
(a) philosophical.
(b) supernatural.
(c) theoretical.
(d) technolgical.

5. At the end of the chapter,
(a) they passed hundreds of antlike cars in the canyon.
(b) they stop to look into and across the enormous canyon.
(c) they descend into a canyon through a series of hairpin turns.
(d) they climb up out of a canyon through a hundred hairpin turns.

Short Answer Questions

1. Quality was kept undefined by definition in order to

2. According to the Narrator, the twentieth century is characterized by

3. Phaedrus used the number zero as a means of showing

4. The Narrator tells a story about camping in the mountains and being surprised by a

5. The shadowy figure keeping the Narrator from opening the door in his dreams is

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