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

2. What is the initial focus of "Ici Je Teste?"
(a) Aquinas and Descartes.
(b) European education models.
(c) American history.
(d) The Catholic Church.

3. Who is the author of "Guide to Kulchur"?
(a) Ezra Pound.
(b) William Shakespeare.
(c) W. E. B. DuBois.
(d) T. S. Eliot.

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

5. What did the moderns conquer?
(a) Philosophical discourse.
(b) Economic stability.
(c) Material reality.
(d) Spiritual open-mindedness.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is compared to culture in the essay "Vortex?"

2. "Great Bass: Part One" focuses on the ______ an ear can hear.

3. Who was the grandfather of Descartes?

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

5. How many essays are contained in Section I?

(see the answer key)

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