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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 does Pound discuss at the beginning of "Sparta 776 B.C.?"
(a) Money in the ancient period.
(b) Philosophy in the ancient period.
(c) War in the ancient period.
(d) Government in the ancient period.

2. In whose work does the idea of the vortex lie?
(a) Plato.
(b) Gaudier-Brzeska.
(c) Descartes.
(d) Leibniz.

3. Where will newness NOT be missed?
(a) Public education.
(b) Daily newspapers.
(c) Colleges.
(d) Family oral traditions.

4. Which sort of ideas are the men of today almost exclusively concerned with, according to Pound?
(a) Ideas that guide action and serve as rules of conduct.
(b) Ideas that do not actually exist.
(c) Ideas that guide action and serve as rules of conduct.
(d) Ideas that are meant to lead culture to evolve.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What did the moderns conquer?

2. What is more important than knowledge?

3. What essay is noted by the author to be dry, but that something worthwhile can come from reading it?

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

5. Why is a new angle useful in writing?

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