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

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

3. What was the focus of Rome, according to "Sparta 776 B.C.?"
(a) The military.
(b) The social.
(c) The spiritual.
(d) The government.

4. Whose life does Pound believe was in line with the best modern views?
(a) Eliot.
(b) Confucious.
(c) Tennyson.
(d) Johnson.

5. According to Pound, who was the last of the philosophers to really "get hold of something" and among the last to worry about reconciling churches?
(a) Aristotle.
(b) Holmes.
(c) Descartes.
(d) Liebniz.

Short Answer Questions

1. What book does the author discuss in "Monumental?"

2. England after what suffered from a special darkness?

3. What aspect of Greek epics have been given insufficient attention, according to Pound?

4. What is usury?

5. Why is a new angle useful in writing?

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