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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the term that encompasses the constant laws and traditions of a culture, as well as the values upon which those laws were built?
(a) Static banality.
(b) Static morality.
(c) Static good.
(d) Static culture.

2. What do Lila and Phaedrus do in Chapter 15?
(a) Make love.
(b) Fish.
(c) Fight.
(d) Cook dinner.

3. When Phaedrus first wakes up in the beginning of "Lila: An Inquiry Into Morals," what had he been doing the previous evening?
(a) Drinking.
(b) Snorting cocaine.
(c) Shooting heroin.
(d) Smoking marijuana.

4. Where do Lila and Phaedrus dock at the end of Chapter 13?
(a) Manhattan Athletic Club.
(b) Turtle Beach.
(c) Manchester Yachting.
(d) Nyack Yacht Club.

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

6. What is Rigel's profession?
(a) Lawyer.
(b) Doctor.
(c) Psychologist.
(d) Engineer.

7. Which of the following is not one of the static patterns of value?
(a) Social patterns.
(b) Biological patterns.
(c) Intellectual patterns.
(d) Spiritual patterns.

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

9. To what ceremony does Phaedrus accompany Dusenberry in Chapter 3?
(a) Betrothal feast.
(b) A vision quest.
(c) Tea ceremony.
(d) Quienceanera.

10. What reason does Phaedrus cite as the reason nobody uses "value" as a quantifiable scientific concept?
(a) Accuracy is completely impossible when considering how important the values would be in the scientific analysis of a population.
(b) Values are impossible to count.
(c) Society does not allow for anything less than an absolute.
(d) The foundations of science would be challenged.

11. What established law does Phaedrus cite as being an example of an evolving static pattern?
(a) Law of Life.
(b) Law of Attraction.
(c) Law of Logic.
(d) Law of Gravity.

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

13. At the end of Chapter 7, what does Phaedrus return to as the basis of his anthropological beliefs?
(a) The world exists in pure stasis because of the interference of the Victorian belief.
(b) Quality and morality are opposites of each other.
(c) Morality is the only important concept in the world.
(d) Quality and morality are the same.

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

15. About how many slips does Phaedrus have on the tray in his boat in Chapter 2?
(a) One thousand.
(b) Ten thousand.
(c) Eleven thousand.
(d) One hundred thousand.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where did Phaedrus meet Lila?

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

3. Along with the wind, what brings about Lila's breakdown at the end of Chapter 10?

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

5. What is one of the greatest frustrations in Lila's life, according to her musings in Chapter 10?

(see the answer keys)

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