Pi Chi – Exam 1 Study Guide with Key Concepts and
Practice Questions
What does PNM stand for? - correct answer ✔✔ Potential New Member
PNMs can be referred to as//PNMs CANNOT be referred to as - correct answer ✔✔ ladies,
women, goddesses divine//child, love bug, nugget, girl, sis, baby angel
What is the term used to refer to letting a PNM go? - correct answer ✔✔ Released
Recruitment or Rush? - correct answer ✔✔ Recruitment ONLY.
How do you refer to houses on Row? - correct answer ✔✔ Chapters
True or False: You are allowed to refer to each chapter by their nickname. - correct answer ✔✔
False: ONLY their entire name. (it can get confusing because some nicknames sound alike)
Disaffiliate or Disassociate? What do each mean? - correct answer ✔✔ DISASSOCIATE: more
positive term and accurately describes the act of temporarily removing yourself.
-Disaffiliate: removing oneself from an organization
What is the purpose of disassociating? - correct answer ✔✔ guide the PNMs objectively
What does MRABA stand for? - correct answer ✔✔ Membership Recruitment Acceptance
Binding Agreement
, What is the MRABA? - correct answer ✔✔ a one-year agreement signed by a PNM when
ranking chapters after preference round, agrees to accept any chapter she lists on her MRABA
What is Continuous Open Recruitment/Bidding? - correct answer ✔✔ an informal recruitment
process that takes place after the conclusion of Formal Panhellenic Recruitment
What chapter is considered the First American Fraternity, and when/where was it founded? -
correct answer ✔✔ Phi Beta Kappa, College of William & Mary, 1776
What type of organization is Phi Beta Kappa? - correct answer ✔✔ honorary society
What fraternities make up the Miami Triad? - correct answer ✔✔ Beta Theta Pi, Phi Delta Theta,
Sigma Chi
What fraternities make up the "Mother of Fraternities"? - correct answer ✔✔ Psi Upsilon, Chi
Psi, Theta Delta Chi
How did the Civil War in 1861-1865 affect fraternities and colleges? - correct answer ✔✔
College enrollment declined and many fraternities were forced to shut down.
On the early-mid 1800s, how were women involved in fraternities? - correct answer ✔✔ some
women joined fraternities but not as "full" members- they were beginning to form secret
societies of their own.
What organization was formed in 1851? - correct answer ✔✔ Adelphean Society -> Alpha Delta
Pi @ Wesleyan College
What organization was formed in 1852? - correct answer ✔✔ Philomathean Society -> Phi Mu
@ Wesleyan College
Practice Questions
What does PNM stand for? - correct answer ✔✔ Potential New Member
PNMs can be referred to as//PNMs CANNOT be referred to as - correct answer ✔✔ ladies,
women, goddesses divine//child, love bug, nugget, girl, sis, baby angel
What is the term used to refer to letting a PNM go? - correct answer ✔✔ Released
Recruitment or Rush? - correct answer ✔✔ Recruitment ONLY.
How do you refer to houses on Row? - correct answer ✔✔ Chapters
True or False: You are allowed to refer to each chapter by their nickname. - correct answer ✔✔
False: ONLY their entire name. (it can get confusing because some nicknames sound alike)
Disaffiliate or Disassociate? What do each mean? - correct answer ✔✔ DISASSOCIATE: more
positive term and accurately describes the act of temporarily removing yourself.
-Disaffiliate: removing oneself from an organization
What is the purpose of disassociating? - correct answer ✔✔ guide the PNMs objectively
What does MRABA stand for? - correct answer ✔✔ Membership Recruitment Acceptance
Binding Agreement
, What is the MRABA? - correct answer ✔✔ a one-year agreement signed by a PNM when
ranking chapters after preference round, agrees to accept any chapter she lists on her MRABA
What is Continuous Open Recruitment/Bidding? - correct answer ✔✔ an informal recruitment
process that takes place after the conclusion of Formal Panhellenic Recruitment
What chapter is considered the First American Fraternity, and when/where was it founded? -
correct answer ✔✔ Phi Beta Kappa, College of William & Mary, 1776
What type of organization is Phi Beta Kappa? - correct answer ✔✔ honorary society
What fraternities make up the Miami Triad? - correct answer ✔✔ Beta Theta Pi, Phi Delta Theta,
Sigma Chi
What fraternities make up the "Mother of Fraternities"? - correct answer ✔✔ Psi Upsilon, Chi
Psi, Theta Delta Chi
How did the Civil War in 1861-1865 affect fraternities and colleges? - correct answer ✔✔
College enrollment declined and many fraternities were forced to shut down.
On the early-mid 1800s, how were women involved in fraternities? - correct answer ✔✔ some
women joined fraternities but not as "full" members- they were beginning to form secret
societies of their own.
What organization was formed in 1851? - correct answer ✔✔ Adelphean Society -> Alpha Delta
Pi @ Wesleyan College
What organization was formed in 1852? - correct answer ✔✔ Philomathean Society -> Phi Mu
@ Wesleyan College
