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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part VI, Section XII, Study of Physiognomy, And Therefore Tending, Pergamena Deest, Watch the Beaners.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How many essays are contained in Section I?
(a) Five.
(b) Seven.
(c) Three.
(d) Nine.

2. How does Pound describe most Protestant parsons?
(a) Misguided.
(b) Disillusioned.
(c) Uncivilized.
(d) Cultured.

3. With what discussion does Pound open "The Recurring Decimal?"
(a) Odes.
(b) Mathematics.
(c) Economics.
(d) Haiku.

4. Whose poetry does Pound want people to appreciate?
(a) Samuel Johnson.
(b) William Blake.
(c) George Gordon, Lord Byron.
(d) T. S. Eliot.

5. According to Pound, all men should be able to combine the practical and ______.
(a) The philosophical.
(b) The psychosomatic.
(c) The psychological.
(d) The physical.

Short Answer Questions

1. The author argues that real knowledge does not jump from where to where?

2. England after what suffered from a special darkness?

3. What is more important than knowledge?

4. Who does Pound believe is superior to Aristotle?

5. The first essay in Part IV, Section IX is "Education or ______."

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