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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. From whose point-of-view is Chapter 23 told?
(a) Lila.
(b) Omniscient narrator.
(c) Phaedrus.
(d) Fatso.

2. What does Lila pull from the water at the end of Chapter 23?
(a) A bottle with a message.
(b) A photograph.
(c) A length of chain.
(d) A doll.

3. 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) Jamie is her ex-husband.
(c) She was once in a hospital, presumably a mental one.
(d) She never had a daughter, as she told Phaedrus.

4. To what ceremony does Phaedrus accompany Dusenberry in Chapter 3?
(a) A vision quest.
(b) Quienceanera.
(c) Tea ceremony.
(d) Betrothal feast.

5. When considering the surviving veterans of World War I, what about their attitude altered the social landscape after the war?
(a) Their heroism.
(b) Their isolation.
(c) Their scarcity.
(d) Their bitterness.

Short Answer Questions

1. With what concept in anthropology does Dusenberry find fault?

2. In Chapter 22, what changed the physical landscape of the social population?

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

4. Who does Phaedrus believe to be the originator of the American lifestyle?

5. Which of the following is not at the forefront of Lila's mind at the beginning of Chapter 10?

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