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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 did the moderns conquer?
(a) Material reality.
(b) Economic stability.
(c) Philosophical discourse.
(d) Spiritual open-mindedness.

2. England after what suffered from a special darkness?
(a) Little Big Horn.
(b) World War I.
(c) World War II.
(d) Waterloo.

3. What is the first essay in Section II?
(a) "Vortex."
(b) "Ici Je Teste."
(c) "Tradition."
(d) "Great Bass."

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. According to Pound, what century involves much cultural decline?

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

3. "Italy" argues that a vast civilization is contained within a few hundred Italian what?

4. What is compared to culture in the essay "Vortex?"

5. In whose work does the idea of the vortex lie?

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