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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 aspect of Greek epics have been given insufficient attention, according to Pound?
(a) Their lessons.
(b) Their authors.
(c) Their settings.
(d) Their characters.

2. Pound cites one author as arguing that "Nicomachean Ethics" is a mass of what?
(a) Notes.
(b) Idiocy.
(c) Idioms.
(d) Nonsense.

3. Whose ideas must the Catholic Church take seriously in order revive?
(a) Plato.
(b) Pope John Paul II.
(c) Liebniz.
(d) Luther.

4. The enemies of mankind are those who ossify what?
(a) Philosophy.
(b) Economics.
(c) History.
(d) Thought.

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) Liebniz.
(b) Holmes.
(c) Aristotle.
(d) Descartes.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. "Savoir Faire" begins by asking what we mean to do when we ______.

3. In Part IV, Section VII, Pound discusses "The ______ of Human Wishes".

4. Who is the author of "Guide to Kulchur"?

5. Civilization involves a sound balance of what?

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