View a FREE sample

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

Short Answer Questions

1. In the pursuit of discovering what is right and wrong, what could no longer be blindly trusted in the early days after World War II?

2. What is Lila's destination in the beginning of Chapter 23?

3. What is Lila's nickname for Phaedrus?

4. To what does Lila physically compare herself in Chapter 23?

5. What does Lila pull from the water at the end of Chapter 23?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does war factor into the Victorian beliefs?

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

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

4. How is Lila driven by her delusions in Chapter 23?

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

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

7. What role does Robert Redford play in this book?

8. Why does Lila leave the name of the boat with the waiter and what does this imply about her plans?

9. How does Phaedrus connect the Zen concept of hell to celebrity?

10. Describe Jamie and Fatso.

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Analyze the culture of celebrity and explain, in detail, why this led Phaedrus to reject a possible film adaptation of his book.

Essay Topic 2

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

Essay Topic 3

Define Quality.

(see the answer keys)

This section contains 1,046 words (approx. 4 pages at 300 words per page) View a FREE sample