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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. According to Pound, everyone is bothered by bad what?
(a) Friends.
(b) Tones.
(c) Experiences.
(d) Vibes.

2. How many essays are contained in Section I?
(a) Nine.
(b) Seven.
(c) Three.
(d) Five.

3. What essay is the the main title for the subtitle: "Is what you can pick up and/or get in touch with, by talk with the most intelligence men of the period?"
(a) "Time Lag."
(b) "The Culture of an Age."
(c) "Precedents."
(d) "The Novel and So Forth."

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

5. What kind of minds are of great value, especially in a rotted milieu?
(a) Short-sighted.
(b) Disordered.
(c) Self-serving.
(d) Greedy.

Short Answer Questions

1. "Europe or The Setting" opens with a discussion of European what?

2. What program of Pound's will bring ideas to everyone and all will know their positions?

3. Who have asked for almost no freedoms save to commit acts contrary to the general good?

4. Where does Pound reveal he worked in "The New Learning: Part Two?"

5. Philosophy leads to the two mystical states of the ecstatic and ______ others.

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