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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. What is the importance of "dynamic good"?
(a) A culture must be able to judge a person's values based on the traditions of their society.
(b) A culture must actively fight for their traditions.
(c) A culture must adopt new ideals in order to continue evolving.
(d) A culture cannot be allowed to denigrate another culture.

2. Why is subject-object science unable to deal with morals?
(a) They are not factual.
(b) They are too easily faked.
(c) They are a man-made construct.
(d) They are not scientifically possible.

3. What Hollywood actor comes to see Phaedrus?
(a) Peter O'Toole.
(b) Paul Newman.
(c) Clint Eastwood.
(d) Robert Redford.

4. Why are values not considered to be a proper platform for a scientific analysis?
(a) Values are deemed too hard to quantify.
(b) Values are dependent upon factors beyond anthropology.
(c) Values are considered to be amateurish in practice.
(d) Values are too mandated by the government.

5. What is the name of the disgraced genius who Phaedrus discovers shared his ideas on the role of American Indians to the American lifestyle?
(a) Franz Boas.
(b) James Holden.
(c) William James Sidis.
(d) Verne Dusenberry.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is Lila's destination in the beginning of Chapter 23?

2. In relation to Rigel, what label does Phaedrus give people who he believes are "gaudy, fraudulent, ornamental peacocks"?

3. In the pursuit of discovering what is right and wrong, what could no longer be blindly trusted in the early days after World War II?

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

5. To what does Phaedrus compare creating a "metaphysics" in Chapter 9?

(see the answer key)

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