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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 do Lila and Phaedrus do in Chapter 15?
(a) Make love.
(b) Cook dinner.
(c) Fish.
(d) Fight.
2. Who is Franz Boas?
(a) Dusenberry's best friend.
(b) Anthropology professor.
(c) Philosopher.
(d) Lila's former lover.
3. 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 the same.
(c) Morality is the only important concept in the world.
(d) Quality and morality are opposites of each other.
4. By Phaedrus's reasoning of dynamic morality in Chapter 13, what is more moral than society killing an idea?
(a) An idea killing a person.
(b) An idea killing a society.
(c) Society killing a person.
(d) A person killing their ideas in order to protect their society.
5. To what does Phaedrus compare creating a "metaphysics" in Chapter 9?
(a) Instincts.
(b) Chess strategy.
(c) Learned behavior.
(d) Car engine.
Short Answer Questions
1. What does Rigel believe will result from what he sees as Phaedrus's dangerous analysis of their culture in Chapter 6?
2. Although "static good" is the opposite of "dynamic good," static must exist or else the dynamic would turn into ____.
3. At what age did Lila have a child?
4. 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?
5. Why does Phaedrus believe his "Metaphysics of Quality" is a more accurate viewpoint of the world?
Short Essay Questions
1. Describe Dusenberry's career.
2. What are Phaedrus's ideas on the American Indian as the basis of American culture?
3. What does Boas have to do with Phaedrus's new project?
4. Why does Phaedrus disagree with Sidis's belief that abstinence was necessary for an intellectual?
5. What are the "slips" on Phaedrus's boat?
6. Why is Phaedrus the only one to consider anthropology in terms of "values"?
7. What are the static patterns of value?
8. Discuss the differences between static good and dynamic good.
9. What problems does Rigel have with Phaedrus's first book?
10. What does Phaedrus mean when he discusses Rigel in relation to his "Victorian" virtue?
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