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

2. When the author presents examples in "Aeschylus and ...," what does he say he is doing?
(a) Life experience demonstrations (LEDs).
(b) Practical application.
(c) Aesthetic criticism.
(d) "Show, don't tell."

3. Who is the author of "Guide to Kulchur"?
(a) Ezra Pound.
(b) T. S. Eliot.
(c) W. E. B. DuBois.
(d) William Shakespeare.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. The author ends "The History of Philosophy Is ...?" with the claim that discoveries are made by whom?

2. What type of education does the author address in "The History of Philosophy Is ...?"

3. Who was the grandfather of Descartes?

4. Whose ideas must the Catholic Church take seriously in order revive?

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

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