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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part III, Chapters 24-32.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. According to Phaedrus, who attempts to imitate American Indians?
(a) Frontier men.
(b) Politicians.
(c) Religious leaders.
(d) Pilgrims.

2. What are the different cultural evaluations of Phaedrus that he ponders after his meeting with the actor?
(a) Spiritual and physical.
(b) Sexual and intellectual.
(c) Mental and physical.
(d) Celebrity and ground-level.

3. How does Phaedrus view Rigel's viewpoint in Chapter 24?
(a) Precise.
(b) Victorian.
(c) Modern.
(d) Indian.

4. What term does Phaedrus use to describe the pure study of philosophy?
(a) Biophilosophy.
(b) Philosophology.
(c) Anthrophology.
(d) Anthrophilosophy.

5. When Lila panics over the missing items in her purse, what information is revealed about her past in Chapter 18?
(a) She had once been arrested.
(b) She was once in a hospital, presumably a mental one.
(c) Jamie is her ex-husband.
(d) She never had a daughter, as she told Phaedrus.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where did Phaedrus meet Lila?

2. If Phaedrus allows his book to be made into a movie, what will be lost to the social pattern of values which will undoubtedly become the focus of the film?

3. Although "static good" is the opposite of "dynamic good," static must exist or else the dynamic would turn into ____.

4. Phaedrus begins to regret his decision to give the film rights over to the actor when he remembers what his attorney told him: "If you love your book, don't sell it to _________."

5. How does a culture deal with insane people?

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