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

2. In whose work does the idea of the vortex lie?
(a) Leibniz.
(b) Gaudier-Brzeska.
(c) Plato.
(d) Descartes.

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

4. In what year does the author claim that a bloke with small means could still see the best of Europe?
(a) 1958.
(b) 1928.
(c) 1938.
(d) 1948.

5. What does the author say about borrowing money?
(a) It is a bad idea.
(b) It is commonplace.
(c) It will not happen ten years from now.
(d) It is a necessary evil.

Short Answer Questions

1. What was the focus of Rome, according to "Sparta 776 B.C.?"

2. How many essays are in Part IV, Section VII?

3. Whose thought in London does Pound praise?

4. Who was the grandfather of Descartes?

5. 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?

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