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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. According to the author, what survives because it is rooted in the idea of human universality?
(a) Music.
(b) Christianity.
(c) Mathematics.
(d) Literature.

2. What essay is noted by the author to be dry, but that something worthwhile can come from reading it?
(a) "Digest of the Analects."
(b) "Sparta 776 B.C."
(c) "Totalitarian."
(d) "The New Learning Part One."

3. Who is commended in "The History of Philosophy Is ...?"
(a) Plato.
(b) Nietzsche.
(c) Descartes.
(d) Aristotle.

4. What author does the author deal with in "Monumental?"
(a) T. S. Eliot.
(b) Franz Kafka.
(c) Himself.
(d) James Joyce.

5. How many pages is "Italy?"
(a) Two.
(b) Three.
(c) One.
(d) Seven.

Short Answer Questions

1. How many essays are contained in Section I?

2. In "Kulchur: Part Two," the author denies that knowledge is what?

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

4. What type of education does the author address in "The History of Philosophy Is ...?"

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

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