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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part III, Section VI, Savoir Faire, The New Learning: Part Two, Examples of Civilization, Books.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What essay is noted by the author to be dry, but that something worthwhile can come from reading it?
(a) "Digest of the Analects."
(b) "Totalitarian."
(c) "Sparta 776 B.C."
(d) "The New Learning Part One."

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

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

5. According to Pound, what century involves much cultural decline?
(a) The 17th.
(b) The 18th.
(c) The 19th.
(d) The 20th.

Short Answer Questions

1. In what year does the author claim that a bloke with small means could still see the best of Europe?

2. What does Pound discuss at the beginning of "Sparta 776 B.C.?"

3. What is usury?

4. What requirement for confirmation in Christianity does Pound lament in the essay "Tradition?"

5. The author says discoveries are made by men who can what?

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