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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.
Short Answer Questions
1. Einstein said:
2. The main point of the lecture was that
3. Phaedrus' stage fright concerning classroom teaching appeared to students as
4. Traveling by motorcycle is unique because
5. The person who started him thinking about Quality was
Short Essay Questions
1. What is the difference between "What's new?" and "What is best?" What type of answer might you get to each question? Which question would you prefer to ask your friends? Which question would you rather have people ask you?
2. 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?
3. What hoped-for phenomena resulted from the abolition of grades in his classes?
4. How had Chris' YMCA camp experience seemingly made him ill-prepared for actual mountain hiking?
5. What aspects of teaching were frustrating for Phaedrus?
6. What does the Narrator mean by the term "squareness?"
7. In Chapter 1, the Narrator says that sometimes when truth knocks on the door you tell it to go away because you are looking for truth. He also introduces the idea of the Chautauqua, saying he will be concerned more with the question of "What is best?" than the question of "What's new?" How are those ideas related to one another?
8. What is a priori knowledge and how are time and space examples of a priori knowledge?
9. How are the people's faces in the cities different from the people's faces in the rural areas? What is the cause of the difference?
10. What does the Narrator mean by referring to Phaedrus' reading of philosophers as the high country of the world of thought?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
What is egotism? In what ways can egotism blind a person to quality? How can egotism get in the way of a person's spiritual journey to understand himself? How was egotism the beginning of all of Phaerus' troubles?
Essay Topic 2
Do you think Phaedrus was a good father? Do you think the Narrator at the beginning of the book was a good father? Do you think the Narrator at the end of the book was a good father? Back your answers with examples to prove your points.
Essay Topic 3
The Narrator says it is good to be in a state of "stuckness." What is "stuckness" and why is a good? What does it allow one's mind to do? Give an example of the Narrator being stuck and then using it to do or say something better than he would have if he had kept going in the original direction.
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