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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part IV, Section VII, Maxims of Prudence, Human Wishes.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Pound describes the "Tempio Malatestiano" as both an apex and a(n) ______.
(a) Failure.
(b) Innovation.
(c) Stereotype.
(d) Travesty.

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

3. What is one measure of civilization?
(a) Its behavior toward families.
(b) Its fears.
(c) Its government.
(d) Its hopes.

4. What is the first essay in Section II?
(a) "Vortex."
(b) "Tradition."
(c) "Great Bass."
(d) "Ici Je Teste."

5. 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) The studious.
(d) Uneducated and the unenlightened.

Short Answer Questions

1. "Savoir Faire" begins by asking what we mean to do when we ______.

2. The author argues that real knowledge does not jump from where to where?

3. What did the author experience after finishing the book addressed in "Monumental?"

4. What is the second sort of idea addressed in "The New Learning Part One?"

5. What type of people are the subject of "Sophists?"

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