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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 does Pound lament the decline of in "Zweck or the Aim?"
(a) One-room schoolhouses.
(b) Classical education.
(c) Liberal arts education.
(d) Home education.

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

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

4. The author ends "The History of Philosophy Is ...?" with the claim that discoveries are made by whom?
(a) Gluttons and addicts.
(b) The lucky.
(c) Uneducated and the unenlightened.
(d) The studious.

5. What makes many great Greek tragedies boring, according to the author?
(a) Unrelatable storylines.
(b) Detailed translation.
(c) Translations of translations.
(d) Attention to meaning above all else.

Short Answer Questions

1. How many essays are contained in Section I?

2. How does real knowledge go into men, according to the author?

3. 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?

4. In "Aeschylus and ..." the author discusses the triumph of ______ over ______ in culture.

5. What is the first essay in Section II?

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