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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part III, Section V, Values, Europe or the Setting, Sophists, Kulchur: Part One, Kulchur Part Two, March 12th, Textbooks.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. The author argues that real knowledge does not jump from where to where?
(a) The mind to the page.
(b) The pen to the stage.
(c) The mind to the pen.
(d) The page to the mind.

2. According to Pound, what century involves much cultural decline?
(a) The 19th.
(b) The 17th.
(c) The 18th.
(d) The 20th.

3. What recent social encyclical comments on economic matters?
(a) Annus Horribilius.
(b) Summorum Pontificum.
(c) Quadrigesimo Anno.
(d) Anglicanorum Coetibus.

4. What is the second sort of idea addressed in "The New Learning Part One?"
(a) Ideas that are meant to lead culture to evolve.
(b) Ideas that guide action and serve as rules of conduct.
(c) Ideas that exist and are discussed in a vacuum.
(d) Ideas that do not actually exist.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. The moderns have a vortex of will and ______.

2. What did the author experience after finishing the book addressed in "Monumental?"

3. What length best describes the essays in Section I?

4. Which sort of ideas are the men of today almost exclusively concerned with, according to Pound?

5. What philosopher is the subject of the first essay in Section I?

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