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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part II, Chapters 16-23.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is Phaedrus' destination in Chapter 17?
(a) His hotel room.
(b) Another bar.
(c) His boat.
(d) His publisher's office.

2. In Chapter 22, what changed the physical landscape of the social population?
(a) Hedonism.
(b) Technology.
(c) Literacy.
(d) Revolution.

3. Why does Phaedrus consider himself to part of the hulking "Giant" from Chapter 17?
(a) His books are popular in that city.
(b) He supports that city politically.
(c) His publisher lives in that city.
(d) He vacations frequently in that city.

4. What flashback does Lila experience when she hallucinates seeing her childhood dog?
(a) Her grandfather's heart attack.
(b) A house fire that resulted in her mother's death.
(c) Her sister going into labor.
(d) A car crash that killed someone close to her.

5. Why does Rigel claim Phaedrus keeps people from properly analyzing his work?
(a) Phaedrus presents his work as fiction.
(b) Phaedrus refuses to discuss his first book.
(c) Phaedrus hides under an assumed name.
(d) Phaedrus does not define Quality.

Short Answer Questions

1. What replaced social snobbery after World War I?

2. Why is subject-object science unable to deal with morals?

3. What does Phaedrus believe to be the last static social pattern in history?

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

5. 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?

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