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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. What does Phaedrus fear will happen to Lila when she leaves with Rigel?
(a) She will be arrested.
(b) She will commit suicide.
(c) She will be institutionalized.
(d) She will be abandoned.

2. Phaedrus refers to his ongoing project as a "Metaphysics of ______."
(a) Quality.
(b) Morality.
(c) Values.
(d) Quanitity.

3. Upon which American Indian tribe does Dusenberry focus his PhD?
(a) Tohono O'odham.
(b) Crow.
(c) Chippewa-Cree.
(d) Lakota.

4. According to Phaedrus's beliefs, what must one to do to be labeled as insane in their society?
(a) They do not conform to their culture's ideas.
(b) They start to behave violently.
(c) They must rally others together to fight a broken system.
(d) They begin to ramble incoherently.

5. How does Phaedrus propose to accurately use values in his analysis of culture?
(a) He will present the values as being worthy of scientific consideration.
(b) He will apply values to actual experience.
(c) He will present his work under an assumed name to remove any pre-existing prejudices against his project.
(d) He will simply call his work "data" instead of "values."

Short Answer Questions

1. What term does Phaedrus use to describe the pure study of philosophy?

2. According to Phaedrus's reckoning in Chapter 17, what will the city (which is his current location) eventually do to the people that live there?

3. Where does the hallucination of Lila's dog lead her at the end of Chapter 23?

4. To what does Phaedrus compare the Giant of his city analogy in Chapter 17?

5. The dynamic quality causes an organism to grow, though without the _____, it will not be able to survive or last.

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