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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part V, Section X, Government, The Recurring Decimal, Decline of the Adamses, Royalty and All That.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. With what discussion does Pound open "The Recurring Decimal?"
(a) Economics.
(b) Haiku.
(c) Mathematics.
(d) Odes.

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

3. The moderns have a vortex of will and ______.
(a) Education.
(b) Spirituality.
(c) Free thought.
(d) Consciousness.

4. What happens to civilization when people prefer a small amount of great things to a large amount of average things?
(a) It becomes cultured.
(b) It becomes respectable.
(c) It becomes influential.
(d) It becomes powerful.

5. Whose introduction in London does Pound praise?
(a) George Gordon, Lord Byron's.
(b) Anne Sexton's.
(c) T. S. Eliot's.
(d) Dr. Johnson's.

Short Answer Questions

1. According to the author, what survives because it is rooted in the idea of human universality?

2. What of Pound's is rebuked in "Human Wishes?"

3. In Part IV, Section VII, Pound discusses "The ______ of Human Wishes".

4. In "March 12th," who gives serious answers to serious questions?

5. What does Pound recommend in "Precedents?"

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