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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. Where will newness NOT be missed?
(a) Daily newspapers.
(b) Colleges.
(c) Public education.
(d) Family oral traditions.

2. Why is a new angle useful in writing?
(a) It brings newness to different readers.
(b) It keeps the historical timeline pure.
(c) It shares a new voice in the human experience.
(d) It dispells lies and rumors.

3. What is usury?
(a) Forcing the public to pay for war.
(b) Charging interest on a loan.
(c) Borrowing money.
(d) Funding a war privately.

4. Which sort of ideas are the men of today almost exclusively concerned with, according to Pound?
(a) Ideas that guide action and serve as rules of conduct.
(b) Ideas that are meant to lead culture to evolve.
(c) Ideas that do not actually exist.
(d) Ideas that guide action and serve as rules of conduct.

5. "Europe or The Setting" opens with a discussion of European what?
(a) Composers.
(b) Paintings.
(c) Philosophy.
(d) Writings.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is commended in "The History of Philosophy Is ...?"

2. Whose ideas must the Catholic Church take seriously in order revive?

3. In "March 12th," who gives serious answers to serious questions?

4. What requirement for confirmation in Christianity does Pound lament in the essay "Tradition?"

5. In "Aeschylus and ..." the author discusses the triumph of ______ over ______ in culture.

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