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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 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 good.
(d) Static banality.

2. Although Phaedrus decides that Lila has biological quality, what does she seem to lack?
(a) Ethical quality.
(b) Spiritual quality.
(c) Intellectual quality.
(d) Social quality.

3. When discussing "Patterns of Culture," how was the outcast Zuni labeled by his people?
(a) A psychopath.
(b) A witch.
(c) A priest.
(d) A philosopher.

4. Why does Phaedrus humorously note in Chapter 12 as the reason nobody before attempted to quantify everything in value?
(a) Value as a concept confuses, rather than clarifies.
(b) Values are impossible to ponder objectively.
(c) The term "value" no longer has any meaning in today's world.
(d) Value is too fickle for a scientific brain.

5. Why is Lila angry with Phaedrus in Chapter 7?
(a) She is forced to watch him get drunk without her.
(b) He ignores her.
(c) There is no food on the boat.
(d) He refuses to allow her to sail the boat.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the name of the disgraced genius who Phaedrus discovers shared his ideas on the role of American Indians to the American lifestyle?

2. "_____ is the primary empirical reality of the world."

3. The dynamic quality causes an organism to grow, though without the _____, it will not be able to survive or last.

4. Before going into anthropology, what was Phaedrus's field of study?

5. With what concept in anthropology does Dusenberry find fault?

Short Essay Questions

1. In Chapter 8, what are some of the faults Phaedrus details with science?

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

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

4. What is the Metaphysics of Quality?

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

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

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

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

9. In Chapter 15, what are Phaedrus's thoughts after making love to Lila?

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

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