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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why does Lila leave her boyfriend?
(a) He is cheating on her.
(b) She falls in love with Phaedrus.
(c) He beats her.
(d) She is bored with him.

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

3. Along with the wind, what brings about Lila's breakdown at the end of Chapter 10?
(a) Engine roar.
(b) Drinking.
(c) A crippling headache.
(d) Police lights.

4. What is one of the greatest frustrations in Lila's life, according to her musings in Chapter 10?
(a) She falls in love too easily.
(b) She has no empathy.
(c) She knows she has a problem, though no one will help her with it.
(d) She has given all of her money away to people who did not deserve it.

5. In relation to Rigel, what label does Phaedrus give people who he believes are "gaudy, fraudulent, ornamental peacocks"?
(a) Dinosaurs.
(b) Prudes.
(c) Anti-progressives.
(d) Victorians.

6. What name does Phaedrus give to the concept that science exists merely to prove the truth?
(a) Common hypothesis.
(b) Backseat theorizing.
(c) Victorian science.
(d) Armchair psychology.

7. The dynamic quality causes an organism to grow, though without the _____, it will not be able to survive or last.
(a) Theories of evolution.
(b) Spiritual reckoning.
(c) Static qualities.
(d) Existentialist ideals.

8. In Chapter 12, how does Phaedrus define the purpose behind everything in life?
(a) A constant competition between elements.
(b) A search for spirituality.
(c) Survival.
(d) Ethical activities.

9. By Phaedrus's reckoning on the nature of Rigel's approach to morality, what was the natural effect of World War I?
(a) World War II.
(b) The revolutionary sixties.
(c) Prohibition.
(d) The Roaring 20s.

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

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

12. What reason does Phaedrus cite as the reason nobody uses "value" as a quantifiable scientific concept?
(a) Society does not allow for anything less than an absolute.
(b) Accuracy is completely impossible when considering how important the values would be in the scientific analysis of a population.
(c) Values are impossible to count.
(d) The foundations of science would be challenged.

13. How does Phaedrus propose to accurately use values in his analysis of culture?
(a) He will simply call his work "data" instead of "values."
(b) He will apply values to actual experience.
(c) He will present his work under an assumed name to remove any pre-existing prejudices against his project.
(d) He will present the values as being worthy of scientific consideration.

14. At the end of Chapter 7, what does Phaedrus return to as the basis of his anthropological beliefs?
(a) Quality and morality are opposites of each other.
(b) The world exists in pure stasis because of the interference of the Victorian belief.
(c) Quality and morality are the same.
(d) Morality is the only important concept in the world.

15. How does the Zuni brujo encompass the idea of "dynamic good"?
(a) He submits to his priests' punishment.
(b) He martyrs himself to his own ideas.
(c) He curbs his own ideas for the good of his tribe.
(d) He reaches outside his culture to right a wrong.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Phaedrus believe to be the long-term effect of living with views such as the ones Rigel holds in Chapter 7?

2. Who is Franz Boas?

3. Why is Lila angry with Phaedrus in Chapter 7?

4. Why are values not considered to be a proper platform for a scientific analysis?

5. At what college is Verne Dusenberry an associate professor?

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