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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 30.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Sylvia is frightened by
(a) a cardboard carton on the road.
(b) the Narrator's bike rolling in the ditch.
(c) a truck with a trailer in their lane.
(d) the gravel on the side of the road.

2. The Narrator characterized the college as a "teaching college" by which he meant
(a) the professors taught the graduate students to teach, but stayed really busy teaching the grad students.
(b) the college was designed to prepare students to be teachers in schools and colleges.
(c) that only those who truly enjoyed teaching worked there since the college did not require research.
(d) the professors were burned out with teaching so many classes and never had time for research or contemplation.

3. Einstein said:
(a) Scientific knowledge comes from nature. Nature provides the hypotheses.
(b) Knowledge comes from man. Man provides the hypotheses.
(c) Knowledge comes from intuition, resting on sympathetic understanding of experience.
(d) The number of rational hypotheses that can explain any given phenomenon is infinite, increasing as more are tested.

4. Chris relates that whichever child saw their father first
(a) would receive a quarter.
(b) would get an ice cream cone.
(c) would receive a nickel.
(d) would get to ride in the front seat next time.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Phaedrus decided that schools teach people to

2. In the "train of knowledge" analogy

3. Sylvia begins to ask questions about Chris'

4. When Quality is subtracted from the world as Phaedrus knew it, he discovered that the fine arts disappeared. What else disappeared?

5. The hyped-up, supermodern style of life is another

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