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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part VI, Section XII, Study of Physiognomy, And Therefore Tending, Pergamena Deest, Watch the Beaners.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What habit does America have about history, according to Pound?
(a) Slanting it.
(b) Arguing it.
(c) Ignoring it.
(d) Rewriting it.

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

3. Whose preface does Pound label as "urbane?"
(a) Dr. Johnson's.
(b) Sir Walter Raleigh's.
(c) T. S. Eliot's.
(d) Franz Kafka's.

4. Who must cut corners, according to "Kulchur: Part One?"
(a) Governmental rulers.
(b) Military rulers.
(c) Philosophers.
(d) Educators.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. How many pages is "Monumental?"

2. How many pages of notes did Pound use in writing "And Therefore Tending?"

3. What is more important than knowledge?

4. Whose "Nicomachean Ethics" does Pound analyze?

5. What is the first sort of idea addressed in "The New Learning Part One?"

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