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

2. What is compared to culture in the essay "Vortex?"
(a) Theatre.
(b) Music.
(c) Literature.
(d) Sculpture.

3. The first essay in Section I is called "______ of the Analects."
(a) Diatribe.
(b) Diary.
(c) Dialogue.
(d) Digest.

4. What recent social encyclical comments on economic matters?
(a) Quadrigesimo Anno.
(b) Anglicanorum Coetibus.
(c) Annus Horribilius.
(d) Summorum Pontificum.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

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

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

4. How many essays are contained in Section I?

5. What program of Pound's will bring ideas to everyone and all will know their positions?

(see the answer key)

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