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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 Quality does Phaedrus believe is beyond Lila in Chapter 17?

2. What is Lila's nickname for Phaedrus?

3. Chapter 16 is told from the point of view of Jamie and ______.

4. Why does Phaedrus consider himself to part of the hulking "Giant" from Chapter 17?

5. What area of science will likely be the one that helps scientifically govern society, according to Phaedrus's theory in Chapter 22?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Phaedrus deduce about Lila from his meeting with her friends?

2. What are the two different cultural evaluations of Phaedrus?

3. Why does Lila decide she needs to leave Phaedrus?

4. What does Lila offer to Jamie and how do both he and Phaedrus react?

5. What does Lila discover when she goes to pay for her bill at the restaurant?

6. How does Phaedrus's musings on the Victorians bring him back to his initial ideas on the American Indians?

7. How does war factor into the Victorian beliefs?

8. Describe Phaedrus's analogy of New York City to a giant.

9. What is Lila's motivation in asking Jamie to join her and Phaedrus?

10. How did the Victorian mindset leave society unprepared to deal with the realities of World War I?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Using Phaedrus's theories, discuss Lila's mental breakdown in-depth.

Essay Topic 2

Discuss sanity versus insanity in the Metaphysics of Quality.

Essay Topic 3

Describe the static patterns of evolution in order to explain how Lila ends up in Rigel's care at the end of the book.

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