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

2. What composer does the author comment on in "Kulchur: Part Two?"
(a) Bach.
(b) Vivaldi.
(c) Beethoven.
(d) Mozart.

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

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

5. Whose merits does Pound expound on in "Study of Physiognomy?"
(a) Chaucer.
(b) Sophocles.
(c) Ovid.
(d) Shakespeare.

Short Answer Questions

1. How many essays are contained in Section II?

2. What does Pound say "suits monkeys?"

3. Hebrews are primitive what?

4. Who does not measure up to Confucius, Homer, the Middle Ages, the Renaissance or even the present, according to "Pergamena Deest?"

5. What happens to civilization when people prefer a small amount of great things to a large amount of average things?

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