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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part I: Chapters 1-15.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Along with the wind, what brings about Lila's breakdown at the end of Chapter 10?
(a) Engine roar.
(b) Drinking.
(c) A crippling headache.
(d) Police lights.

2. Who does Phaedrus believe to be the originator of the American lifestyle?
(a) The Germans.
(b) The descendants of the abducted African slaves.
(c) The American Indians.
(d) The Irish.

3. Where do Lila and Phaedrus dock at the end of Chapter 13?
(a) Turtle Beach.
(b) Nyack Yacht Club.
(c) Manchester Yachting.
(d) Manhattan Athletic Club.

4. By Phaedrus's reckoning on the nature of Rigel's approach to morality, what was the natural effect of World War I?
(a) Prohibition.
(b) World War II.
(c) The Roaring 20s.
(d) The revolutionary sixties.

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) Destruction.
(b) A decay in the moral fiber of society.
(c) Loss of one's identity.
(d) Living in a vacuum of morality.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is Franz Boas?

2. How does the Zuni brujo encompass the idea of "dynamic good"?

3. Why does Rigel claim Phaedrus keeps people from properly analyzing his work?

4. What is the term that encompasses the constant laws and traditions of a culture, as well as the values upon which those laws were built?

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

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