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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 replaced social snobbery after World War I?
(a) Spiritual.
(b) Intellectual.
(c) Biological.
(d) Sexual.

2. What does Phaedrus finally realize about Rigel's warnings about Lila?
(a) Lila is obsessed with Phaedrus.
(b) Lila is a compulsive liar with a drug addiction.
(c) Lila is mentally ill.
(d) Lila is a con artist.

3. What is Lila's nickname for Phaedrus?
(a) The Sailor.
(b) The Librarian.
(c) The Captain.
(d) The Scholar.

4. What reason does Phaedrus cite as the reason nobody uses "value" as a quantifiable scientific concept?
(a) Accuracy is completely impossible when considering how important the values would be in the scientific analysis of a population.
(b) Society does not allow for anything less than an absolute.
(c) The foundations of science would be challenged.
(d) Values are impossible to count.

5. When Lila and Phaedrus have breakfast in Chapter 30, who does she claim is coming to see them?
(a) Rigel.
(b) Jamie.
(c) Fatso.
(d) God.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Phaedrus believe to be the long-term effect of living with views such as the ones Rigel holds in Chapter 7?

2. 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 _________."

3. Upon what river does Phaedrus plan to travel by boat?

4. What fault does Phaedrus find with the Victorian concept of morals?

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

(see the answer key)

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