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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Who believed that abstinence was necessary for intellectual pursuits?
(a) Franz Boas.
(b) William James Sidis.
(c) Richard Rigel.
(d) Vernon Dusenberry.

3. How does the Zuni brujo encompass the idea of "dynamic good"?
(a) He submits to his priests' punishment.
(b) He martyrs himself to his own ideas.
(c) He reaches outside his culture to right a wrong.
(d) He curbs his own ideas for the good of his tribe.

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

5. What is interesting to note about the syntax of the phrase "Metaphysics of Quality"?
(a) It is purposefully redundant in phrasing.
(b) It ties together several different cultures and their values.
(c) It is a contradiction.
(d) It is grammatically perfect.

6. When discussing "Patterns of Culture," how was the outcast Zuni labeled by his people?
(a) A priest.
(b) A philosopher.
(c) A witch.
(d) A psychopath.

7. Why does Lila leave her boyfriend?
(a) She falls in love with Phaedrus.
(b) She is bored with him.
(c) He is cheating on her.
(d) He beats her.

8. What breakthrough excites Phaedrus in Chapter 12?
(a) The idea that ethics and science can be one and the same.
(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 realization that the Law of Gravity is continually challenged.

9. Who is Franz Boas?
(a) Lila's former lover.
(b) Dusenberry's best friend.
(c) Anthropology professor.
(d) Philosopher.

10. What animal does Phaedrus use as an example of the limitations of the long-held standards of science in Chapter 8?
(a) The dinosaur.
(b) The horse.
(c) The kangaroo.
(d) The platypus.

11. Why does Phaedrus humorously note in Chapter 12 as the reason nobody before attempted to quantify everything in value?
(a) Value is too fickle for a scientific brain.
(b) Values are impossible to ponder objectively.
(c) Value as a concept confuses, rather than clarifies.
(d) The term "value" no longer has any meaning in today's world.

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

13. In Chapter 11, why does Phaedrus find it impossible to argue with Lila?
(a) She is too static.
(b) She is too self-centered to think of anyone or anything besides herself.
(c) She is unable to understand his intellectualism.
(d) She is too dynamic.

14. In relation to Rigel, what label does Phaedrus give people who he believes are "gaudy, fraudulent, ornamental peacocks"?
(a) Anti-progressives.
(b) Prudes.
(c) Victorians.
(d) Dinosaurs.

15. What is one of the greatest frustrations in Lila's life, according to her musings in Chapter 10?
(a) She knows she has a problem, though no one will help her with it.
(b) She falls in love too easily.
(c) She has no empathy.
(d) She has given all of her money away to people who did not deserve it.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. By Phaedrus's reasoning of dynamic morality in Chapter 13, what is more moral than society killing an idea?

4. Before going into anthropology, what was Phaedrus's field of study?

5. What does Rigel believe will result from what he sees as Phaedrus's dangerous analysis of their culture in Chapter 6?

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