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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part I, Section II, Vortex, Great Bass, Ici Je Teste, Tradition.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Which of the following is NOT one of the important modes of thought discussed in "Ici Je Teste?"
(a) Contemplation.
(b) Cogitation.
(c) Relation.
(d) Meditation.

3. What recent social encyclical comments on economic matters?
(a) Anglicanorum Coetibus.
(b) Quadrigesimo Anno.
(c) Annus Horribilius.
(d) Summorum Pontificum.

4. 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) "Sparta 776 B.C."
(c) "Digest of the Analects."
(d) "Totalitarian."

5. The moderns have a vortex of will and ______.
(a) Consciousness.
(b) Spirituality.
(c) Education.
(d) Free thought.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Pound discuss at the beginning of "Sparta 776 B.C.?"

2. In whose work does the idea of the vortex lie?

3. After Liebniz, professional philosophers are just ______ blokes, according to Pound.

4. What did the moderns conquer?

5. What program of Pound's will bring ideas to everyone and all will know their positions?

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