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

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

3. What is the second sort of idea addressed in "The New Learning Part One?"
(a) Ideas that guide action and serve as rules of conduct.
(b) Ideas that are meant to lead culture to evolve.
(c) Ideas that do not actually exist.
(d) Ideas that exist and are discussed in a vacuum.

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

5. After Liebniz, professional philosophers are just ______ blokes, according to Pound.
(a) Struggling.
(b) Lazy.
(c) Uneducated.
(d) Amateur.

Short Answer Questions

1. What philosopher is the subject of the first essay in Section I?

2. Where will newness NOT be missed?

3. What was the focus of Rome, according to "Sparta 776 B.C.?"

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

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

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