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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. What do Lila and Phaedrus do in Chapter 15?
(a) Fight.
(b) Fish.
(c) Make love.
(d) Cook dinner.

2. What breakthrough excites Phaedrus in Chapter 12?
(a) The platypus is an example of science creating a new category in order to cover up for its inability to redefine certain foundations.
(b) The idea that evolution coexists with spiritual aspects.
(c) The idea that ethics and science can be one and the same.
(d) The realization that the Law of Gravity is continually challenged.

3. What name does Phaedrus give to the concept that science exists merely to prove the truth?
(a) Victorian science.
(b) Armchair psychology.
(c) Backseat theorizing.
(d) Common hypothesis.

4. Why must the "first division" be completely correct?
(a) The rest of the classification will always be incorrect.
(b) The rest of the world will only be able to look into the first division for guidance.
(c) The first division is likened to the control in a scientific experiment.
(d) The system can otherwise be easily disproved.

5. Why is Lila angry with Phaedrus in Chapter 7?
(a) He refuses to allow her to sail the boat.
(b) He ignores her.
(c) She is forced to watch him get drunk without her.
(d) There is no food on the boat.

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. By Phaedrus's reckoning on the nature of Rigel's approach to morality, what was the natural effect of World War I?

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

4. At the end of Chapter 7, what does Phaedrus return to as the basis of his anthropological beliefs?

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

(see the answer key)

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