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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. "Praise Song of the Buck-Hare" presents a poem written in what year?
(a) 1920.
(b) 1866.
(c) 1861.
(d) 1792.

2. How many essays are in Part IV, Section VII?
(a) One.
(b) Three.
(c) Two.
(d) Four.

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

4. What is compared to culture in the essay "Vortex?"
(a) Music.
(b) Theatre.
(c) Sculpture.
(d) Literature.

5. Since when has American been imbecilic, according to Pound?
(a) 1900.
(b) 1931.
(c) 1865.
(d) 1776.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

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

4. What science is addressed in "Kulchur: Part One?"

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

(see the answer key)

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