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

2. Why does Rigel claim Phaedrus keeps people from properly analyzing his work?
(a) Phaedrus hides under an assumed name.
(b) Phaedrus presents his work as fiction.
(c) Phaedrus refuses to discuss his first book.
(d) Phaedrus does not define Quality.

3. To what does Phaedrus compare creating a "metaphysics" in Chapter 9?
(a) Car engine.
(b) Chess strategy.
(c) Instincts.
(d) Learned behavior.

4. 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.

5. How does Phaedrus propose to accurately use values in his analysis of culture?
(a) He will present the values as being worthy of scientific consideration.
(b) He will simply call his work "data" instead of "values."
(c) He will apply values to actual experience.
(d) He will present his work under an assumed name to remove any pre-existing prejudices against his project.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What reason does Phaedrus cite as the reason nobody uses "value" as a quantifiable scientific concept?

3. Who does Phaedrus believe to be the originator of the American lifestyle?

4. Which of the following is not at the forefront of Lila's mind at the beginning of Chapter 10?

5. Why is Lila angry with Phaedrus in Chapter 7?

Short Essay Questions

1. Describe Dusenberry's career.

2. What is evolutionary morality?

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

4. What is Phaedrus's early analysis of Lila in Chapter 11?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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