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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part VI, Section XII, Study of Physiognomy, And Therefore Tending, Pergamena Deest, Watch the Beaners.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. The author ends "The History of Philosophy Is ...?" with the claim that discoveries are made by whom?
(a) Uneducated and the unenlightened.
(b) The lucky.
(c) Gluttons and addicts.
(d) The studious.

2. British observers have had a tone of disgust since when?
(a) The Revolutionary War.
(b) Queen Anne.
(c) Queen Victoria.
(d) Henry VIII.

3. What does Pound say American can learn from?
(a) European education models.
(b) Native American culture.
(c) The Constitution.
(d) Chinese history.

4. What habit does America have about history, according to Pound?
(a) Ignoring it.
(b) Rewriting it.
(c) Slanting it.
(d) Arguing it.

5. Why is a new angle useful in writing?
(a) It keeps the historical timeline pure.
(b) It shares a new voice in the human experience.
(c) It brings newness to different readers.
(d) It dispells lies and rumors.

Short Answer Questions

1. How many essays are in Part IV, Section VII?

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

3. Whose merits does Pound expound on in "Study of Physiognomy?"

4. What does Pound believe is NOT a cold subject?

5. Whose ideas must the Catholic Church take seriously in order revive?

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