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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 the second sort of idea addressed in "The New Learning Part One?"
(a) Ideas that guide action and serve as rules of conduct.
(b) Ideas that are meant to lead culture to evolve.
(c) Ideas that exist and are discussed in a vacuum.
(d) Ideas that do not actually exist.

2. What kind of piece is "Guide to Kulchur?"
(a) Stunt.
(b) Opus.
(c) Manifesto.
(d) Titular.

3. "Europe or The Setting" opens with a discussion of European what?
(a) Philosophy.
(b) Composers.
(c) Writings.
(d) Paintings.

4. Whose new "London" does Pound discuss?
(a) T. S. Eliot's.
(b) Dr. Johnson's.
(c) Dr. Spock's.
(d) Alfred, Lord Tennyson's.

5. Who must cut corners, according to "Kulchur: Part One?"
(a) Philosophers.
(b) Educators.
(c) Military rulers.
(d) Governmental rulers.

Short Answer Questions

1. How many pages is "Italy?"

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

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

4. What type of people are the subject of "Sophists?"

5. According to Pound, what century involves much cultural decline?

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