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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. In Part IV, Section VII, Pound discusses "The ______ of Human Wishes".
(a) Hope.
(b) Vanity.
(c) Humility.
(d) Mercy.

2. What author does Pound say is discussed enough, but not often read as a poet?
(a) Shakespeare.
(b) T. S. Eliot.
(c) D.H. Lawrence.
(d) Oscar Wilde.

3. According to Pound, who was the last of the philosophers to really "get hold of something" and among the last to worry about reconciling churches?
(a) Descartes.
(b) Aristotle.
(c) Liebniz.
(d) Holmes.

4. Whose new "London" does Pound discuss?
(a) Dr. Spock's.
(b) Alfred, Lord Tennyson's.
(c) Dr. Johnson's.
(d) T. S. Eliot's.

5. After Liebniz, professional philosophers are just ______ blokes, according to Pound.
(a) Amateur.
(b) Uneducated.
(c) Lazy.
(d) Struggling.

Short Answer Questions

1. What important structures are discussed in "Examples of Civilization?"

2. Pound describes the "Tempio Malatestiano" as both an apex and a(n) ______.

3. Whose thought in London does Pound praise?

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

5. What is not yet rotted by "usury" or the practice of making money from money?

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