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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. What is more important than knowledge?
(a) Understanding.
(b) Culture.
(c) Nothing.
(d) Experience.

2. According to Pound, what century involves much cultural decline?
(a) The 17th.
(b) The 19th.
(c) The 20th.
(d) The 18th.

3. When the author presents examples in "Aeschylus and ...," what does he say he is doing?
(a) Aesthetic criticism.
(b) Practical application.
(c) "Show, don't tell."
(d) Life experience demonstrations (LEDs).

4. Whose preface does Pound label as "urbane?"
(a) Sir Walter Raleigh's.
(b) Dr. Johnson's.
(c) T. S. Eliot's.
(d) Franz Kafka's.

5. In "Neo-Platonicks Etc.," Pound discusses philosophers that followed who?
(a) Plato.
(b) Confucious.
(c) Neon Nickes.
(d) Hobbes.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who does Pound say was wise to oppose usury?

2. Who is commended in "The History of Philosophy Is ...?"

3. The first essay in Section I is called "______ of the Analects."

4. Which sort of ideas are the men of today almost exclusively concerned with, according to Pound?

5. How many essays are contained in Section II?

(see the answer key)

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