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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 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.

2. What is more important than knowledge?
(a) Experience.
(b) Nothing.
(c) Understanding.
(d) Culture.

3. Who was the grandfather of Descartes?
(a) Thomas More.
(b) Aquinas.
(c) Dante.
(d) Francis of Assisi.

4. Why is a new angle useful in writing?
(a) It shares a new voice in the human experience.
(b) It keeps the historical timeline pure.
(c) It brings newness to different readers.
(d) It dispells lies and rumors.

5. What was the focus of Rome, according to "Sparta 776 B.C.?"
(a) The spiritual.
(b) The government.
(c) The social.
(d) The military.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. What does Pound lament the decline of in "Zweck or the Aim?"

4. Most of the focus in "Guide" is on intellectuals from what country?

5. According to Pound, what century involves much cultural decline?

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