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

2. Where is Lila in Chapter 23?
(a) The bar.
(b) Phaedrus's publisher's office.
(c) The streets.
(d) The hotel room.

3. What does Lila contemplate swearing off forever as she makes her way back to Phaedrus?
(a) Intellectualism.
(b) Alcohol.
(c) Drugs.
(d) Men.

4. Which of the following relationships did not appear to be the most pertinent to Lila from her childhood?
(a) Her mother.
(b) Her sister.
(c) Her grandfather.
(d) Her brother.

5. What does Phaedrus believe to be the long-term effect of living with views such as the ones Rigel holds in Chapter 7?
(a) A decay in the moral fiber of society.
(b) Loss of one's identity.
(c) Living in a vacuum of morality.
(d) Destruction.

Short Answer Questions

1. What animal does Phaedrus use as an example of the limitations of the long-held standards of science in Chapter 8?

2. Of what were the Victorians apparently ignorant during the onset of World War I?

3. Why is subject-object science unable to deal with morals?

4. What name does Phaedrus give to the concept that science exists merely to prove the truth?

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

(see the answer key)

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