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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part III, Chapters 24-32.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does Phaedrus view Rigel's viewpoint in Chapter 24?
(a) Victorian.
(b) Modern.
(c) Precise.
(d) Indian.

2. Why did Phaedrus initially buy his boat?
(a) Therapy.
(b) An escape plan.
(c) Exercise.
(d) A whim.

3. What did Phaedrus reflect upon as being a moment of freedom and escape from a static pattern in his earlier years?
(a) His writing.
(b) His insanity.
(c) His philosophizing.
(d) His drug addictions.

4. What does Phaedrus admit to regretting about Lila at the end of Chapter 24?
(a) He lent her money.
(b) They parted ways angrily.
(c) He made love to her.
(d) He allowed her on the boat in the first place.

5. When considering the surviving veterans of World War I, what about their attitude altered the social landscape after the war?
(a) Their isolation.
(b) Their heroism.
(c) Their scarcity.
(d) Their bitterness.

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. Which of the following is not one of the perceptions Phaedrus believes people such as Lila, Rigel, and the famous actor have of him?

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

4. When Lila panics over the missing items in her purse, what information is revealed about her past in Chapter 18?

5. What do the insane apparently resent in the sane population?

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