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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 Phaedrus believe to be the long-term effect of living with views such as the ones Rigel holds in Chapter 7?
(a) Living in a vacuum of morality.
(b) Loss of one's identity.
(c) A decay in the moral fiber of society.
(d) Destruction.

2. What does Rigel believe will result from what he sees as Phaedrus's dangerous analysis of their culture in Chapter 6?
(a) People will become more despondent.
(b) People will invent their own morality.
(c) People will abandon their religious duties.
(d) People will allow society to become chaotic.

3. Why does Lila decide she needs to stay with Phaedrus in Chapter 14?
(a) She is falling in love with him.
(b) She realizes it will be mutually beneficial.
(c) She is afraid that he might be suicidal.
(d) She doubts his ability to take care of himself.

4. How does the Zuni brujo encompass the idea of "dynamic good"?
(a) He submits to his priests' punishment.
(b) He curbs his own ideas for the good of his tribe.
(c) He reaches outside his culture to right a wrong.
(d) He martyrs himself to his own ideas.

5. What is one of the greatest frustrations in Lila's life, according to her musings in Chapter 10?
(a) She knows she has a problem, though no one will help her with it.
(b) She has no empathy.
(c) She has given all of her money away to people who did not deserve it.
(d) She falls in love too easily.

Short Answer Questions

1. When discussing "Patterns of Culture," how was the outcast Zuni labeled by his people?

2. Upon which American Indian tribe does Dusenberry focus his PhD?

3. What established law does Phaedrus cite as being an example of an evolving static pattern?

4. To what does Phaedrus compare creating a "metaphysics" in Chapter 9?

5. Along with the wind, what brings about Lila's breakdown at the end of Chapter 10?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is evolutionary morality?

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

3. What are Phaedrus's thoughts on the current century in Chapter 13?

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

5. Discuss the differences between static good and dynamic good.

6. What is the Metaphysics of Quality?

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

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

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

10. Describe Dusenberry's career.

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