Updated 26 May 2026
PDT Final Test Questions with Detailed
Verified Answers
What is a Phikeia?
✓✓ A new member in training of the Phi Delta Theta fraternity
2.) What is the purpose of the Phikeia education
program?
✓✓ to foster maturity and help a phikeia grow and adapt to his new
situation.
Who are your Phikeia Class officers, and what is each
one's job?
✓✓ The class officers preside over all meetings and consist of 1.) A
president 2.) a secretary 3.) a treasurer
4.) What is a big brother?
✓✓ A big brother is an initiated member of the Fraternity who becomes
the Phikeia's mentor, helping him adjust to college life, acquaint himself
with the chapter, and help him through the program.
What is the order of procedure for a Phikeia meeting?
, Updated 26 May 2026
✓✓ Roll call
Minutes of last meeting
reports of officers
reports of committees
scholarship reports
old business
new business
announcements
examination of assigned material
guest speaker
assignments
What is a male graduate called? The plural? A female
graduate? the plural?
✓✓ An alumnus. Alumni. Alumna, Alumnae
What is wrong with using the word "Nationals"?
✓✓ PDT has not been "nationals" since 1902 when a chapter was
installed at Mcgill University in Quebec, Canada
Write and spell the letters of the Greek alphabet
, Updated 26 May 2026
✓✓ No flashcard for this one
List the three cardinal principles of PDT and describe
how they apply to daily life.
✓✓ Friendship, Sound Learning, Rectitude. Friendship is about the
brotherhood and bonds that we form as a class and as a fraternity.
Sound Learning refers to our devotion to scholarly pursuits and mental
fortitude. Rectitude refers to a high level of morality and devotion to
doing good.
From what document do these principles come?
✓✓ The Bond
Who articulated the principles as we know them?
✓✓ Brother Walter B. Palmer, Emory-Vanderbilt 1877
What is the Athenian ideal of friendship?
✓✓ A unity of skills, tastes, and thoughts. Not a loss of personal identity,
but rather a search for truth and a desire to be united with others who
sought the same.
Why are we "our brothers' keepers?"
✓✓ We are all responsible for the well-being of one another
, Updated 26 May 2026
Why is scholarship important to membership in PDT
✓✓ The primary reason to attend college is to study and to learn, a
concept the founders clearly held in mind. It helps ensure that the
chapter is a positive influence within the campus community
What is the Fraternity's role in the scholarship
performance of it members?
✓✓ Scholarship achievement and Fraternal living must compliment one
another. To influence an honest desire to learn and be curious.
What is rectitude?
✓✓ It means faith but it mostly just means to have a high standard of
morality and to be kind and stuff.
In what occupation did most of the Founders serve?
✓✓ Men of faith, pastors, preachers
How does the Phikeia oath apply to the three
principles?
✓✓ Friendship, Sound Learning, Rectitude. Those are the three, BS the
rest of this question like your life depended on it.
What is the first Greek letter society and where and
when was it founded?
PDT Final Test Questions with Detailed
Verified Answers
What is a Phikeia?
✓✓ A new member in training of the Phi Delta Theta fraternity
2.) What is the purpose of the Phikeia education
program?
✓✓ to foster maturity and help a phikeia grow and adapt to his new
situation.
Who are your Phikeia Class officers, and what is each
one's job?
✓✓ The class officers preside over all meetings and consist of 1.) A
president 2.) a secretary 3.) a treasurer
4.) What is a big brother?
✓✓ A big brother is an initiated member of the Fraternity who becomes
the Phikeia's mentor, helping him adjust to college life, acquaint himself
with the chapter, and help him through the program.
What is the order of procedure for a Phikeia meeting?
, Updated 26 May 2026
✓✓ Roll call
Minutes of last meeting
reports of officers
reports of committees
scholarship reports
old business
new business
announcements
examination of assigned material
guest speaker
assignments
What is a male graduate called? The plural? A female
graduate? the plural?
✓✓ An alumnus. Alumni. Alumna, Alumnae
What is wrong with using the word "Nationals"?
✓✓ PDT has not been "nationals" since 1902 when a chapter was
installed at Mcgill University in Quebec, Canada
Write and spell the letters of the Greek alphabet
, Updated 26 May 2026
✓✓ No flashcard for this one
List the three cardinal principles of PDT and describe
how they apply to daily life.
✓✓ Friendship, Sound Learning, Rectitude. Friendship is about the
brotherhood and bonds that we form as a class and as a fraternity.
Sound Learning refers to our devotion to scholarly pursuits and mental
fortitude. Rectitude refers to a high level of morality and devotion to
doing good.
From what document do these principles come?
✓✓ The Bond
Who articulated the principles as we know them?
✓✓ Brother Walter B. Palmer, Emory-Vanderbilt 1877
What is the Athenian ideal of friendship?
✓✓ A unity of skills, tastes, and thoughts. Not a loss of personal identity,
but rather a search for truth and a desire to be united with others who
sought the same.
Why are we "our brothers' keepers?"
✓✓ We are all responsible for the well-being of one another
, Updated 26 May 2026
Why is scholarship important to membership in PDT
✓✓ The primary reason to attend college is to study and to learn, a
concept the founders clearly held in mind. It helps ensure that the
chapter is a positive influence within the campus community
What is the Fraternity's role in the scholarship
performance of it members?
✓✓ Scholarship achievement and Fraternal living must compliment one
another. To influence an honest desire to learn and be curious.
What is rectitude?
✓✓ It means faith but it mostly just means to have a high standard of
morality and to be kind and stuff.
In what occupation did most of the Founders serve?
✓✓ Men of faith, pastors, preachers
How does the Phikeia oath apply to the three
principles?
✓✓ Friendship, Sound Learning, Rectitude. Those are the three, BS the
rest of this question like your life depended on it.
What is the first Greek letter society and where and
when was it founded?
