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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part II, Chapters 16-23.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What flashback does Lila experience when she hallucinates seeing her childhood dog?
(a) Her sister going into labor.
(b) A house fire that resulted in her mother's death.
(c) A car crash that killed someone close to her.
(d) Her grandfather's heart attack.

2. Chapter 16 is told from the point of view of Jamie and ______.
(a) Rigel.
(b) Phaedrus.
(c) Fatso.
(d) Lila.

3. Why does Phaedrus humorously note in Chapter 12 as the reason nobody before attempted to quantify everything in value?
(a) Values are impossible to ponder objectively.
(b) Value as a concept confuses, rather than clarifies.
(c) Value is too fickle for a scientific brain.
(d) The term "value" no longer has any meaning in today's world.

4. With what concept in anthropology does Dusenberry find fault?
(a) Modern living.
(b) Persecution.
(c) Scientific principle.
(d) Objectivity.

5. Why is subject-object science unable to deal with morals?
(a) They are not factual.
(b) They are too easily faked.
(c) They are not scientifically possible.
(d) They are a man-made construct.

Short Answer Questions

1. What were Phaedrus's headmaster's thoughts on the concepts of grace and morals?

2. For what reasons does this actor come to see Phaedrus in Chapter 19?

3. About how many slips does Phaedrus have on the tray in his boat in Chapter 2?

4. By Phaedrus's reckoning on the nature of Rigel's approach to morality, what was the natural effect of World War I?

5. What Hollywood actor comes to see Phaedrus?

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