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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. How many essays are contained in Section I?
(a) Three.
(b) Five.
(c) Seven.
(d) Nine.

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

3. What does Pound lament the decline of in "Zweck or the Aim?"
(a) Liberal arts education.
(b) Home education.
(c) One-room schoolhouses.
(d) Classical education.

4. According to Pound, what century involves much cultural decline?
(a) The 19th.
(b) The 18th.
(c) The 20th.
(d) The 17th.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. How many essays are contained in Section II?

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

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

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

5. "Zweck or the Aim" argues that the point of writing is to what?

(see the answer key)

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