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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. With what concept in anthropology does Dusenberry find fault?
(a) Modern living.
(b) Scientific principle.
(c) Objectivity.
(d) Persecution.

4. Phaedrus refers to his ongoing project as a "Metaphysics of ______."
(a) Quanitity.
(b) Values.
(c) Quality.
(d) Morality.

5. Why does Lila decide she needs to stay with Phaedrus in Chapter 14?
(a) She doubts his ability to take care of himself.
(b) She is afraid that he might be suicidal.
(c) She realizes it will be mutually beneficial.
(d) She is falling in love with him.

6. In Chapter 12, how does Phaedrus define the purpose behind everything in life?
(a) Ethical activities.
(b) A constant competition between elements.
(c) Survival.
(d) A search for spirituality.

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

8. Why does Lila choose to not pursue a relationship with Phaedrus?
(a) She is not attracted to him.
(b) She misses her former lover too much.
(c) She does not understand him.
(d) She is afraid of him.

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

10. By Phaedrus's reckoning on the nature of Rigel's approach to morality, what was the natural effect of World War I?
(a) The revolutionary sixties.
(b) World War II.
(c) The Roaring 20s.
(d) Prohibition.

11. How does Phaedrus propose to accurately use values in his analysis of culture?
(a) He will present the values as being worthy of scientific consideration.
(b) He will present his work under an assumed name to remove any pre-existing prejudices against his project.
(c) He will apply values to actual experience.
(d) He will simply call his work "data" instead of "values."

12. 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.

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What do Lila and Phaedrus do in Chapter 15?

2. The dynamic quality causes an organism to grow, though without the _____, it will not be able to survive or last.

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

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

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

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