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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part IV, Section IX, Education or Information, Neo-Platonicks Etc., Losses, Odes: Risks, Great Bass: Part Two, Tone.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the initial focus of "Ici Je Teste?"
(a) European education models.
(b) The Catholic Church.
(c) American history.
(d) Aquinas and Descartes.

2. How long is "Maxims of Prudence?"
(a) Ten pages.
(b) Five pages.
(c) One page.
(d) Three pages.

3. What did England's special darkness cause an interruption in?
(a) Religion.
(b) Education.
(c) Communication.
(d) Philosophy.

4. Whose thought in London does Pound praise?
(a) Anne Sexton's.
(b) George Gordon, Lord Byron's.
(c) T. S. Eliot's.
(d) Dr. Johnson's.

5. Who is commended in "The History of Philosophy Is ...?"
(a) Descartes.
(b) Plato.
(c) Nietzsche.
(d) Aristotle.

Short Answer Questions

1. In "Aeschylus and ..." the author discusses the triumph of ______ over ______ in culture.

2. Philosophy leads to the two mystical states of the ecstatic and ______ others.

3. What important structures are discussed in "Examples of Civilization?"

4. According to Pound, who was the last of the philosophers to really "get hold of something" and among the last to worry about reconciling churches?

5. The author says discoveries are made by men who can what?

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