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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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.

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

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

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

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

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. Phaedrus refers to his ongoing project as a "Metaphysics of ______."

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

4. To what ceremony does Phaedrus accompany Dusenberry in Chapter 3?

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

Short Essay Questions

1. How did Lila end up on Phaedrus's boat?

2. What problems does Rigel have with Phaedrus's first book?

3. What is evolutionary morality?

4. Why is Phaedrus the only one to consider anthropology in terms of "values"?

5. What does Boas have to do with Phaedrus's new project?

6. What are the "slips" on Phaedrus's boat?

7. What are Phaedrus's ideas on the American Indian as the basis of American culture?

8. Why does Phaedrus disagree with Sidis's belief that abstinence was necessary for an intellectual?

9. What do Lila and Phaedrus talk about during dinner in Chapter 14 and what do the readers learn about them?

10. What does Phaedrus mean when he discusses Rigel in relation to his "Victorian" virtue?

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