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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part I: Chapters 1-15.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What breakthrough excites Phaedrus in Chapter 12?
(a) The idea that ethics and science can be one and the same.
(b) The platypus is an example of science creating a new category in order to cover up for its inability to redefine certain foundations.
(c) The idea that evolution coexists with spiritual aspects.
(d) The realization that the Law of Gravity is continually challenged.

2. What does Rigel believe will result from what he sees as Phaedrus's dangerous analysis of their culture in Chapter 6?
(a) People will invent their own morality.
(b) People will become more despondent.
(c) People will abandon their religious duties.
(d) People will allow society to become chaotic.

3. Before going into anthropology, what was Phaedrus's field of study?
(a) Biology.
(b) Chemistry.
(c) Physicis.
(d) Psychology.

4. Why must the "first division" be completely correct?
(a) The rest of the classification will always be incorrect.
(b) The first division is likened to the control in a scientific experiment.
(c) The rest of the world will only be able to look into the first division for guidance.
(d) The system can otherwise be easily disproved.

5. Phaedrus refers to his ongoing project as a "Metaphysics of ______."
(a) Morality.
(b) Quanitity.
(c) Values.
(d) Quality.

Short Answer Questions

1. The dynamic quality causes an organism to grow, though without the _____, it will not be able to survive or last.

2. 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?

3. Although "static good" is the opposite of "dynamic good," static must exist or else the dynamic would turn into ____.

4. By Phaedrus's reasoning of dynamic morality in Chapter 13, what is more moral than society killing an idea?

5. In Chapter 12, how does Phaedrus define the purpose behind everything in life?

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