Zen Motor Quiz Review

What is the name for the philosophical discourses Pirsig uses in the novel?

• Chautauquas

• Chit Chats

• Chowhogs

• Sophist Soliloquys

What object is used to symbolize a metaphorical physical barrier of the division he’s created between he and his family?

• A Ghost

• Glass Door

• Motorcycle

• A Buddha

The author’s use of motorcycle maintenance seems to apply to the narrator’s allegory in that it represents a means to an end for two divided souls, such as he and his son, to reach a tipping point of destruction.

• TRUE

• FALSE

One of the conflicts the narrator appears to wrestle with and attempt to resolve is the opposing forces of religion such as Zen versus Greek mythology.

• TRUE

• FALSE

Which of the following settings was used by the author as a metaphor for the spiritual realizations the narrator had on Quality, ego, and the nature of his relationship with his son?

• The Storm

• The Plains

• The Cliff

• The Mountain

Which of the following is NOT one of the gumption traps the narrator explains?

• Internal or "hang-ups"

• External or "setbacks"

• Ethereal or "other worldly"

The term the narrator reflects on that is Japanese meaning "no thing."

• Zen

• Tao

• Mu

• Gumption

Phaedrus comes to the conclusion that we all know what Quality means but not one person can ever define it into a simple definition.

• TRUE

• FALSE

Motorcycle maintenance is a Zen process that is divorced from egotistical concerns.

• TRUE

• FALSE

Pirsig is an admirer of what influential philosophical work?

• Socratic Seminars

• Dialogues of Plato

• Scientific Methods of Aristotle