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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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 allow society to become chaotic.
(b) People will become more despondent.
(c) People will invent their own morality.
(d) People will abandon their religious duties.

3. What is the name of the disgraced genius who Phaedrus discovers shared his ideas on the role of American Indians to the American lifestyle?
(a) William James Sidis.
(b) Franz Boas.
(c) Verne Dusenberry.
(d) James Holden.

4. Although Phaedrus decides that Lila has biological quality, what does she seem to lack?
(a) Intellectual quality.
(b) Spiritual quality.
(c) Ethical quality.
(d) Social quality.

5. When Phaedrus first wakes up in the beginning of "Lila: An Inquiry Into Morals," what had he been doing the previous evening?
(a) Shooting heroin.
(b) Smoking marijuana.
(c) Drinking.
(d) Snorting cocaine.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who believed that abstinence was necessary for intellectual pursuits?

2. With what concept in anthropology does Dusenberry find fault?

3. How does Phaedrus propose to accurately use values in his analysis of culture?

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

5. Along with the wind, what brings about Lila's breakdown at the end of Chapter 10?

Short Essay Questions

1. In Chapter 8, what are some of the faults Phaedrus details with science?

2. What does Boas have to do with Phaedrus's new project?

3. What are Phaedrus's thoughts on the current century in Chapter 13?

4. Describe Dusenberry's career.

5. Why is Phaedrus the only one to consider anthropology in terms of "values"?

6. What leads up to Lila's psychotic breakdown in Chapter 10?

7. What is the Metaphysics of Quality?

8. In Chapter 15, what are Phaedrus's thoughts after making love to Lila?

9. What are Phaedrus's ideas on the American Indian as the basis of American culture?

10. What is Phaedrus's early analysis of Lila in Chapter 11?

(see the answer keys)

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