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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part III, Section V, Values, Europe or the Setting, Sophists, Kulchur: Part One, Kulchur Part Two, March 12th, Textbooks.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. The first essay in Section I is called "______ of the Analects."
(a) Diary.
(b) Diatribe.
(c) Dialogue.
(d) Digest.

2. What is usury?
(a) Borrowing money.
(b) Forcing the public to pay for war.
(c) Funding a war privately.
(d) Charging interest on a loan.

3. What kind of minds are of great value, especially in a rotted milieu?
(a) Short-sighted.
(b) Disordered.
(c) Greedy.
(d) Self-serving.

4. Whose ideas must the Catholic Church take seriously in order revive?
(a) Pope John Paul II.
(b) Luther.
(c) Plato.
(d) Liebniz.

5. After Liebniz, professional philosophers are just ______ blokes, according to Pound.
(a) Lazy.
(b) Struggling.
(c) Uneducated.
(d) Amateur.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where will newness NOT be missed?

2. The author ends "The History of Philosophy Is ...?" with the claim that discoveries are made by whom?

3. According to Pound, what century involves much cultural decline?

4. What type of people are the subject of "Sophists?"

5. In "Kulchur: Part Two," the author denies that knowledge is what?

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