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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part I: Chapters 1-15.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does the Zuni brujo encompass the idea of "dynamic good"?
(a) He martyrs himself to his own ideas.
(b) He reaches outside his culture to right a wrong.
(c) He curbs his own ideas for the good of his tribe.
(d) He submits to his priests' punishment.

2. Why does Rigel claim Phaedrus keeps people from properly analyzing his work?
(a) Phaedrus hides under an assumed name.
(b) Phaedrus refuses to discuss his first book.
(c) Phaedrus presents his work as fiction.
(d) Phaedrus does not define Quality.

3. What does Rigel believe will result from what he sees as Phaedrus's dangerous analysis of their culture in Chapter 6?
(a) People will become more despondent.
(b) People will abandon their religious duties.
(c) People will allow society to become chaotic.
(d) People will invent their own morality.

4. Upon what basis must morals be analyzed in order to glean the greatest precision?
(a) Ethics.
(b) Evolution.
(c) Reason.
(d) Spirituality.

5. The dynamic quality causes an organism to grow, though without the _____, it will not be able to survive or last.
(a) Spiritual reckoning.
(b) Theories of evolution.
(c) Static qualities.
(d) Existentialist ideals.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Phaedrus believe to be the long-term effect of living with views such as the ones Rigel holds in Chapter 7?

2. Why must the "first division" be completely correct?

3. Along with the wind, what brings about Lila's breakdown at the end of Chapter 10?

4. When Phaedrus first wakes up in the beginning of "Lila: An Inquiry Into Morals," what had he been doing the previous evening?

5. When discussing "Patterns of Culture," how was the outcast Zuni labeled by his people?

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