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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 culture.
(b) Static morality.
(c) Static banality.
(d) Static good.

2. Why must the "first division" be completely correct?
(a) The rest of the world will only be able to look into the first division for guidance.
(b) The rest of the classification will always be incorrect.
(c) The system can otherwise be easily disproved.
(d) The first division is likened to the control in a scientific experiment.

3. 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 become more despondent.
(c) People will invent their own morality.
(d) People will allow society to become chaotic.

4. Upon what basis must morals be analyzed in order to glean the greatest precision?
(a) Spirituality.
(b) Ethics.
(c) Reason.
(d) Evolution.

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

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

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

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

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

10. According to the Metaphysics of Quality, what theory is used in conjunction with the idea of life generally having a purpose in regards to Phaedrus' ideas on static versus dynamic Quality?
(a) Death.
(b) Afterlife.
(c) Evolution.
(d) Gravity.

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

12. The dynamic quality causes an organism to grow, though without the _____, it will not be able to survive or last.
(a) Existentialist ideals.
(b) Static qualities.
(c) Theories of evolution.
(d) Spiritual reckoning.

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

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

15. 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) Society does not allow for anything less than an absolute.
(c) Values are impossible to count.
(d) The foundations of science would be challenged.

Short Answer Questions

1. When discussing "Patterns of Culture," how was the outcast Zuni labeled by his people?

2. Upon what river does Phaedrus plan to travel by boat?

3. According to Phaedrus, who attempts to imitate American Indians?

4. Where do Lila and Phaedrus dock at the end of Chapter 13?

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

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