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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. Ancient Chinese sculpture had a vortex of intense ______.
(a) Balance.
(b) Spirituality.
(c) Peace.
(d) Maturity.

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

3. What program of Pound's will bring ideas to everyone and all will know their positions?
(a) New learning.
(b) New philosophy.
(c) New religion.
(d) New culture.

4. What length best describes the essays in Section I?
(a) Book-length.
(b) Medium.
(c) Long.
(d) Short.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What did the moderns conquer?

2. What requirement for confirmation in Christianity does Pound lament in the essay "Tradition?"

3. How many essays are contained in Section II?

4. Which of the following is NOT one of the important modes of thought discussed in "Ici Je Teste?"

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

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