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

2. How does real knowledge go into men, according to the author?
(a) Through experience.
(b) In tidbits.
(c) All at once.
(d) From birth.

3. What is more important than knowledge?
(a) Culture.
(b) Nothing.
(c) Experience.
(d) Understanding.

4. What makes many great Greek tragedies boring, according to the author?
(a) Detailed translation.
(b) Unrelatable storylines.
(c) Translations of translations.
(d) Attention to meaning above all else.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What is religious in "The Proof of the Pudding?"

2. What kind of piece is "Guide to Kulchur?"

3. How many pages is "Italy?"

4. What is the initial focus of "Ici Je Teste?"

5. Ancient Chinese sculpture had a vortex of intense ______.

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