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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 a culture deal with insane people?
(a) Asylums.
(b) Book deals.
(c) Disease.
(d) Art galleries.

2. When Lila panics over the missing items in her purse, what information is revealed about her past in Chapter 18?
(a) Jamie is her ex-husband.
(b) She never had a daughter, as she told Phaedrus.
(c) She had once been arrested.
(d) She was once in a hospital, presumably a mental one.

3. Why are values not considered to be a proper platform for a scientific analysis?
(a) Values are considered to be amateurish in practice.
(b) Values are dependent upon factors beyond anthropology.
(c) Values are deemed too hard to quantify.
(d) Values are too mandated by the government.

4. What must intellectuals seek out and destroy under the tenets of Metaphysics of Quality in order to help the human race advance?
(a) Murderous perversions.
(b) Moral ineptitude.
(c) Destructive biological patterns.
(d) Intellectual stagnation.

5. By Phaedrus's reasoning in Chapter 15, in condemning ______, static biological antagonism is condemned to intellectual quality only.
(a) Ethics.
(b) Sexuality.
(c) Physical fitness.
(d) Abstinence.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does Phaedrus believe his book will be derided by the anthropology community?

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

3. What is the name of Lila's childhood dog?

4. To what does Phaedrus compare the underground manholes of his current location in Chapter 17?

5. In what state is Lila in Chapter 29 after she and Phaedrus escape having the police called on them?

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