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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 initial focus of "Ici Je Teste?"
(a) The Catholic Church.
(b) European education models.
(c) American history.
(d) Aquinas and Descartes.

2. What of Pound's is rebuked in "Human Wishes?"
(a) Defense of poetry.
(b) Slap-dash.
(c) Apology to T. S. Eliot.
(d) Letter to the Editor.

3. What Italian intellectuals does Pound admire?
(a) Anarchist.
(b) Communist.
(c) Fascist.
(d) Democratic.

4. Which of the following is NOT one of the important modes of thought discussed in "Ici Je Teste?"
(a) Contemplation.
(b) Meditation.
(c) Cogitation.
(d) Relation.

5. Whose ideas must the Catholic Church take seriously in order revive?
(a) Plato.
(b) Luther.
(c) Liebniz.
(d) Pope John Paul II.

Short Answer Questions

1. The first essay in Part IV, Section IX is "Education or ______."

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

3. How does real knowledge go into men, according to the author?

4. What is more important than knowledge?

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

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