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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 usury?
(a) Charging interest on a loan.
(b) Forcing the public to pay for war.
(c) Borrowing money.
(d) Funding a war privately.

2. Pound wants people to know that Hadyn is similarly great to whom?
(a) Vivaldi.
(b) Beethoven.
(c) Mozart.
(d) Bach.

3. What is based on ignoble elements?
(a) Culture.
(b) Art.
(c) Philosophy.
(d) Government.

4. What recent social encyclical comments on economic matters?
(a) Summorum Pontificum.
(b) Quadrigesimo Anno.
(c) Anglicanorum Coetibus.
(d) Annus Horribilius.

5. What is the second essay in Part IV, Section VII?
(a) "Maxims of Prudence."
(b) "Guide to Kulchur."
(c) "Ici, Je Teste."
(d) "Human Wishes."

Short Answer Questions

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

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

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

4. What makes many great Greek tragedies boring, according to the author?

5. What does Pound recommend in "Precedents?"

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