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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer 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?

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

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

4. At the end of Chapter 7, what does Phaedrus return to as the basis of his anthropological beliefs?

5. Why are values not considered to be a proper platform for a scientific analysis?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is evolutionary morality?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Discuss the idea that "good" is actually a noun and how it is the root of the Metaphysics of Quality.

Essay Topic 2

Define Quality.

Essay Topic 3

Discuss sanity versus insanity in the Metaphysics of Quality.

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