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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) Maturity.
(b) Balance.
(c) Spirituality.
(d) Peace.

2. What requirement for confirmation in Christianity does Pound lament in the essay "Tradition?"
(a) A course of intense study.
(b) Allegience to an outdated religious model.
(c) Examination of consciousness.
(d) Confession.

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. How many essays are contained in Section I?

2. The first essay in Section I is called "______ of the Analects."

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

4. Who is the author of "Guide to Kulchur"?

5. According to Pound, who was the last of the philosophers to really "get hold of something" and among the last to worry about reconciling churches?

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