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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. Where were people sent for systemized information in Pound's youth?
(a) Germany.
(b) England.
(c) America.
(d) France.

2. What is compared to culture in the essay "Vortex?"
(a) Theatre.
(b) Sculpture.
(c) Music.
(d) Literature.

3. Who was the grandfather of Descartes?
(a) Thomas More.
(b) Dante.
(c) Francis of Assisi.
(d) Aquinas.

4. Who does Pound say was wise to oppose usury?
(a) Adams.
(b) Washington.
(c) Lincoln.
(d) Jefferson.

5. In which direction was the culture of Christian medieval?
(a) Inward.
(b) Vertical.
(c) Outward.
(d) Circular.

Short Answer Questions

1. What do bilingual classics tests and microfiche editions of music help?

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

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

4. After Liebniz, professional philosophers are just ______ blokes, according to Pound.

5. Whose preface does Pound label as "urbane?"

(see the answer key)

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