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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. The author ends "The History of Philosophy Is ...?" with the claim that discoveries are made by whom?
(a) Uneducated and the unenlightened.
(b) The lucky.
(c) Gluttons and addicts.
(d) The studious.

2. The first essay in Part IV, Section IX is "Education or ______."
(a) Culture.
(b) Information.
(c) Wisdom.
(d) Knowledge.

3. What book does the author discuss in "Monumental?"
(a) "The Waste Land."
(b) "The Metamorphosis."
(c) "Cantos."
(d) "Ulysses."

4. Who is the author walking through a range of different artists in "Guide?"
(a) The products of American artists.
(b) Historians.
(c) Sociologists.
(d) The uneducated.

5. In "Neo-Platonicks Etc.," Pound discusses philosophers that followed who?
(a) Plato.
(b) Neon Nickes.
(c) Confucious.
(d) Hobbes.

Short Answer Questions

1. In "The History of Philosophy Is ...?" the author notes that many philosophers tried to understand the world totally apart from what?

2. Whose introduction in London does Pound praise?

3. When the author presents examples in "Aeschylus and ...," what does he say he is doing?

4. Whose ideas must the Catholic Church take seriously in order revive?

5. In "Aeschylus and ..." the author discusses the triumph of ______ over ______ in culture.

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