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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. What makes many great Greek tragedies boring, according to the author?
(a) Detailed translation.
(b) Translations of translations.
(c) Unrelatable storylines.
(d) Attention to meaning above all else.

2. 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?
(a) Holmes.
(b) Aristotle.
(c) Liebniz.
(d) Descartes.

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

4. What do bilingual classics tests and microfiche editions of music help?
(a) The new learning.
(b) Expression of culture.
(c) Personal creativity.
(d) Understanding of culture.

5. "Zweck or the Aim" argues that the point of writing is to what?
(a) Record a culture's history for future generations.
(b) Share human experience.
(c) Reveal the whole subject from a new angle.
(d) Tell the truth.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What is more important than knowledge?

3. Whose preface does Pound label as "urbane?"

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

5. In "Aeschylus and ..." the author discusses the triumph of ______ over ______ in culture.

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