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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What city does Phaedrus compare to a giant?
(a) Chicago.
(b) New York City.
(c) Miami.
(d) Seattle.

2. To what does Phaedrus compare the underground manholes of his current location in Chapter 17?
(a) Heart.
(b) Lungs.
(c) Arteries.
(d) Kidney.

3. Where does the hallucination of Lila's dog lead her at the end of Chapter 23?
(a) The bar.
(b) The hospital.
(c) The police station.
(d) The boat.

4. What is Phaedrus' destination in Chapter 17?
(a) Another bar.
(b) His hotel room.
(c) His publisher's office.
(d) His boat.

5. What appears to be behind Lila's offer to Jamie?
(a) Lila thinks Jamie will help Phaedrus with his book.
(b) Lila is afraid of Phaedrus and wants Jamie around for protection.
(c) Lila wants to betray Phaedrus.
(d) Lila wants to marry Jamie.

6. Which of the following is not one of the perceptions Phaedrus believes people such as Lila, Rigel, and the famous actor have of him?
(a) Hero.
(b) Romantic partner.
(c) Nerd.
(d) Moral degenerate.

7. When considering the surviving veterans of World War I, what about their attitude altered the social landscape after the war?
(a) Their bitterness.
(b) Their heroism.
(c) Their scarcity.
(d) Their isolation.

8. What is Lila's destination in the beginning of Chapter 23?
(a) Her apartment.
(b) The boat.
(c) Phaedrus's hotel room.
(d) Jamie's house.

9. 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?
(a) Remove them.
(b) Laud them.
(c) Reward them.
(d) Devour them.

10. What were Phaedrus's headmaster's thoughts on the concepts of grace and morals?
(a) One could only be granted these by spiritual means.
(b) One lost them over time.
(c) One could only aspire to them.
(d) One was born with them.

11. Why does Phaedrus leave the bar in Chapter 16?
(a) Lila is becoming drunker and verbally abusive towards him.
(b) He is not feeling well.
(c) He has to make it to a meeting with his publisher.
(d) He is angry that Lila is trying to bring her friends on his boat.

12. What does Phaedrus regard as being the term that encompasses the conflict between social and intellectual patterns?
(a) Celebrity.
(b) Media.
(c) Heaven.
(d) Reality.

13. What area of science will likely be the one that helps scientifically govern society, according to Phaedrus's theory in Chapter 22?
(a) Anthropology.
(b) Chemistry.
(c) Physics.
(d) Psychology.

14. What city does Phaedrus believe to be the most dynamic on earth?
(a) Berlin.
(b) New York City.
(c) London.
(d) Tokyo.

15. What school did Phaedrus attend as a boy?
(a) Yale.
(b) Blake.
(c) Milford.
(d) Williamson.

Short Answer Questions

1. What flashback does Lila experience when she hallucinates seeing her childhood dog?

2. Chapter 16 is told from the point of view of Jamie and ______.

3. According to Phaedrus, the Victorians believe that the patterns of society will always dominate the patterns of _______.

4. In the pursuit of discovering what is right and wrong, what could no longer be blindly trusted in the early days after World War II?

5. To what does Lila physically compare herself in Chapter 23?

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