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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 is the importance of "dynamic good"?
(a) A culture cannot be allowed to denigrate another culture.
(b) A culture must actively fight for their traditions.
(c) A culture must be able to judge a person's values based on the traditions of their society.
(d) A culture must adopt new ideals in order to continue evolving.

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

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

4. Why are values not considered to be a proper platform for a scientific analysis?
(a) Values are too mandated by the government.
(b) Values are dependent upon factors beyond anthropology.
(c) Values are deemed too hard to quantify.
(d) Values are considered to be amateurish in practice.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What is Rigel's profession?

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

3. Although Phaedrus decides that Lila has biological quality, what does she seem to lack?

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

5. Why does Lila decide she needs to stay with Phaedrus in Chapter 14?

Short Essay Questions

1. Describe Dusenberry's career.

2. What is the Metaphysics of Quality?

3. What leads up to Lila's psychotic breakdown in Chapter 10?

4. Describe the life of the Zuni Indian discussed in Ruth Benedict's "Patterns of Culture."

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

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

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

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

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

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

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