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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. In "March 12th," who gives serious answers to serious questions?
(a) The civilized man.
(b) The educated man.
(c) Government officials.
(d) The philosopher.

2. In "The History of Philosophy Is ...?" the author notes that many philosophers tried to understand the world totally apart from what?
(a) Observation.
(b) Religion.
(c) Science.
(d) Experience.

3. What does the author say about borrowing money?
(a) It is commonplace.
(b) It is a necessary evil.
(c) It will not happen ten years from now.
(d) It is a bad idea.

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 do not actually exist.
(c) Ideas that guide action and serve as rules of conduct.
(d) Ideas that are meant to lead culture to evolve.

5. In whose work does the idea of the vortex lie?
(a) Plato.
(b) Gaudier-Brzeska.
(c) Leibniz.
(d) Descartes.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What is usury?

3. "Zweck or the Aim" argues that the point of writing is to what?

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

5. What recent social encyclical comments on economic matters?

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