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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part II, Section III, Guide, Italy, Aeschylus and ..., Monumental, Section IV, The History of Philosophy is ...?.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

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

4. The moderns have a vortex of will and ______.
(a) Free thought.
(b) Spirituality.
(c) Consciousness.
(d) Education.

5. What did the author experience after finishing the book addressed in "Monumental?"
(a) Catharsis.
(b) Anger.
(c) Sadness.
(d) Joy.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What recent social encyclical comments on economic matters?

3. Who was the grandfather of Descartes?

4. "Italy" argues that a vast civilization is contained within a few hundred Italian what?

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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