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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. At what age did Lila have a child?
(a) Sixteen.
(b) Twenty.
(c) Seventeen.
(d) Nineteen.

2. Although Phaedrus decides that Lila has biological quality, what does she seem to lack?
(a) Intellectual quality.
(b) Social quality.
(c) Spiritual quality.
(d) Ethical quality.

3. 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) Destruction.
(d) Living in a vacuum of morality.

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

5. Where did Phaedrus meet Lila?
(a) A political meeting.
(b) A bar.
(c) A rave.
(d) A friend's house.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is one of the greatest frustrations in Lila's life, according to her musings in Chapter 10?

2. By Phaedrus's reasoning in Chapter 15, in condemning ______, static biological antagonism is condemned to intellectual quality only.

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

4. About how many slips does Phaedrus have on the tray in his boat in Chapter 2?

5. At what college is Verne Dusenberry an associate professor?

(see the answer key)

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