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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. What does Phaedrus admit to regretting about Lila at the end of Chapter 24?
(a) They parted ways angrily.
(b) He lent her money.
(c) He allowed her on the boat in the first place.
(d) He made love to her.

2. What was the last attempt to break away from Victorian morality after World War II?
(a) The atom bomb.
(b) The politicians.
(c) The Vietnam veterans.
(d) The hippies.

3. "_____ is the primary empirical reality of the world."
(a) Morals.
(b) Values.
(c) Anthropology.
(d) Quality.

4. From whose point-of-view is Chapter 23 told?
(a) Phaedrus.
(b) Omniscient narrator.
(c) Lila.
(d) Fatso.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. According to Phaedrus's reckoning in Chapter 17, what will the city (which is his current location) eventually do to the people that live there?

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

3. What does Phaedrus decide is the most difficult aspect of being insane?

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

5. What weapon is particularly mentioned in Chapter 22 as helping to have changed the world's outlook on war?

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