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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. What types of artists are the subject of the author's observations in "Guide?"
(a) Sculptors.
(b) Performance artists.
(c) Installation artists.
(d) Painters.

2. Who is commended in "The History of Philosophy Is ...?"
(a) Plato.
(b) Aristotle.
(c) Descartes.
(d) Nietzsche.

3. What does Pound lament the decline of from the 19th century?
(a) Biology.
(b) Philosophy.
(c) Sociology.
(d) Psychology.

4. What type of education does the author address in "The History of Philosophy Is ...?"
(a) Charlotte Mason.
(b) Self-schooling.
(c) Montessori.
(d) Seton.

5. Philosophy leads to the two mystical states of the ecstatic and ______ others.
(a) Goodwill towards.
(b) Connection with.
(c) Oblivion about.
(d) Sense about.

Short Answer Questions

1. Most of the focus in "Guide" is on intellectuals from what country?

2. In "Neo-Platonicks Etc.," Pound discusses philosophers that followed who?

3. In Part IV, Section VII, Pound discusses "The ______ of Human Wishes".

4. "Great Bass: Part One" focuses on the ______ an ear can hear.

5. What universities does Pound discuss in the first essay in Part IV, Section IX?

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