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

2. What does Rigel believe will result from what he sees as Phaedrus's dangerous analysis of their culture in Chapter 6?
(a) People will abandon their religious duties.
(b) People will allow society to become chaotic.
(c) People will become more despondent.
(d) People will invent their own morality.

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?
(a) Customs.
(b) Hedonism.
(c) Spirituality.
(d) Intellectuals.

4. Where does Phaedrus believe the idea that the intellect reigns supreme over societal needs will lead the human race?
(a) Mediocrity.
(b) Moral corruption.
(c) Enlightenment.
(d) Destruction.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Phaedrus listen to on the radio as he sails away from the marina in Chapter 28?

2. Although "static good" is the opposite of "dynamic good," static must exist or else the dynamic would turn into ____.

3. What established law does Phaedrus cite as being an example of an evolving static pattern?

4. For what reasons did Phaedrus believe that the Victorians were directly responsible for the roaring 20s?

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

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