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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why does Lila decide she needs to stay with Phaedrus in Chapter 14?
(a) She doubts his ability to take care of himself.
(b) She is afraid that he might be suicidal.
(c) She realizes it will be mutually beneficial.
(d) She is falling in love with him.

2. Where do Lila and Phaedrus dock at the end of Chapter 13?
(a) Turtle Beach.
(b) Manhattan Athletic Club.
(c) Nyack Yacht Club.
(d) Manchester Yachting.

3. What is the term that encompasses the constant laws and traditions of a culture, as well as the values upon which those laws were built?
(a) Static culture.
(b) Static good.
(c) Static morality.
(d) Static banality.

4. By Phaedrus's reasoning of dynamic morality in Chapter 13, what is more moral than society killing an idea?
(a) An idea killing a society.
(b) A person killing their ideas in order to protect their society.
(c) Society killing a person.
(d) An idea killing a person.

5. About how many slips does Phaedrus have on the tray in his boat in Chapter 2?
(a) Ten thousand.
(b) One hundred thousand.
(c) One thousand.
(d) Eleven thousand.

Short Answer Questions

1. To what does Phaedrus compare creating a "metaphysics" in Chapter 9?

2. How does Phaedrus propose to accurately use values in his analysis of culture?

3. Why does Phaedrus believe his book will be derided by the anthropology community?

4. "_____ is the primary empirical reality of the world."

5. Phaedrus refers to his ongoing project as a "Metaphysics of ______."

Short Essay Questions

1. Describe the life of the Zuni Indian discussed in Ruth Benedict's "Patterns of Culture."

2. What do Lila and Phaedrus talk about during dinner in Chapter 14 and what do the readers learn about them?

3. Describe Dusenberry's career.

4. What are the "slips" on Phaedrus's boat?

5. What problems does Rigel have with Phaedrus's first book?

6. What does Boas have to do with Phaedrus's new project?

7. What is Phaedrus's early analysis of Lila in Chapter 11?

8. What are Phaedrus's thoughts on the current century in Chapter 13?

9. What are Phaedrus's ideas on the American Indian as the basis of American culture?

10. What leads up to Lila's psychotic breakdown in Chapter 10?

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