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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. 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) Aristotle.
(b) Holmes.
(c) Liebniz.
(d) Descartes.

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

3. "Italy" argues that a vast civilization is contained within a few hundred Italian what?
(a) Painters.
(b) Writers.
(c) Musicians.
(d) Sculptors.

4. How does real knowledge go into men, according to the author?
(a) Through experience.
(b) All at once.
(c) In tidbits.
(d) From birth.

5. How many essays are in Part IV, Section VII?
(a) Two.
(b) Four.
(c) One.
(d) Three.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What makes many great Greek tragedies boring, according to the author?

3. What aspect of Greek epics have been given insufficient attention, according to Pound?

4. According to Pound, everyone is bothered by bad what?

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

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