This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part V, Section XI, Arabia Deserta, Kung, Chaucer Was Framed?, Happy Days, The Promised Land.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. "Praise Song of the Buck-Hare" presents a poem written in what year?
(a) 1861.
(b) 1866.
(c) 1792.
(d) 1920.

2. In what year does the author claim that a bloke with small means could still see the best of Europe?
(a) 1958.
(b) 1948.
(c) 1928.
(d) 1938.

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

4. Where does sovereignty rest, according to Pound?
(a) Culture.
(b) Money.
(c) Military might.
(d) Blood.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What essay is the the main title for the subtitle: "Is what you can pick up and/or get in touch with, by talk with the most intelligence men of the period?"

2. What composer does the author comment on in "Kulchur: Part Two?"

3. Civilization involves a sound balance of what?

4. Whose life does Pound believe was in line with the best modern views?

5. "Europe or The Setting" opens with a discussion of European what?

(see the answer key)

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