endogamy and exogamy (a) to isolation, and
(b) to the establishment of a successful stock or race?

5. In what ways do the Jews and the Americans as racial types illustrate
the effects of isolation and of contact?

6. What do you understand to be Bacon's definition of solitude?

7. What is the point in the saying "A great town is a great solitude"?

8. What is the sociology of the creation by a solitary person of
imaginary companions?

9. Under what conditions does an individual prefer solitude to society?
Give illustrations.

10. What are the devices used in prayer to secure isolation?

11. "Prayer has value in that it develops the essentially social form of
personal self-realization." Explain.

12. What are the interrelations of social contact and of privacy in the
development of the ideal self?

13. What do you understand by the relation of erudition to originality?

14. In what ways does isolation (a) promote, (b) impede,
originality? What other factors beside isolation are involved in
originality?

15. What is the value of privacy?

16. What was the value of the monasteries?

17. What conclusions do you derive from the study of the cases of feral
men? Do these cases bear out the theory of Aristotle in regard to the
effect of isolation upon the individual?

18. What is the significance of Helen Keller's account of how she broke
through the barriers of isolation?

19. What were the mental effects of solitude described by Hudson? How do
you explain the difference between the descriptions of the effect of
solitude in the accounts given by Rousseau and by Hudson?

20. How does Galpin explain the relation of isolation to the development
of the "rural mind"?

21. What are the effects of isolation upon the young man or young woman
reared in the country?

22. Was Lincoln the product of isolation or of social contact?

23. To what extent are rural problems the result of isolation?

24. What do you understand by Thomas' statement, "The savage, the Negro,
the peasant, the slum dwellers, and the white woman are notable
sufferers by exclusion"?

25. What other of the subtler forms of isolation occur to you?

26. Is isolation to be regarded as always a disadvantage?

27. What do you understand by segregation as a process?

28. Give illustrations of groups other than those mentioned which have
become segregated as a result of isolation.

29. How would you describe the process by which isolation leads