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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. At what age did Lila have a child?

2. Why does Rigel claim Phaedrus keeps people from properly analyzing his work?

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

4. Which of the following is not one of the static patterns of value?

5. What does Phaedrus believe to be the long-term effect of living with views such as the ones Rigel holds in Chapter 7?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

9. What are the static patterns of value?

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Describe the concepts of both isolation and escape (as well as their connections to each other) in "Lila: An Inquiry Into Morals."

Essay Topic 2

Discuss the influence of Victorian values versus the influence of the American Indians in society.

Essay Topic 3

When one cannot be the same person they were earlier and they find themselves being defined by the perceptions of others, what happens to that person's identity within their society? Discuss this question in relation to both Phaedrus and Lila.

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