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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Addenda: 1952, As Sextant, Introductory Textbook.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the second essay in Part IV, Section VII?
(a) "Human Wishes."
(b) "Ici, Je Teste."
(c) "Guide to Kulchur."
(d) "Maxims of Prudence."

2. What is religious in "The Proof of the Pudding?"
(a) Culture.
(b) Art.
(c) Literature.
(d) Music.

3. What author is addressed at the beginning of "Study of Physiognomy?"
(a) Aristotle.
(b) Rousseau.
(c) Eliot.
(d) Tennyson.

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

5. According to Pound, what nation is not civilized?
(a) France.
(b) America.
(c) England.
(d) Russia.

Short Answer Questions

1. What author does Pound say is discussed enough, but not often read as a poet?

2. What did England's special darkness cause an interruption in?

3. In which direction was the culture of Christian medieval?

4. What does Pound lament the decline of from the 19th century?

5. What does the author see as swiftness in a given field?

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