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

2. What author is addressed at the beginning of "Study of Physiognomy?"
(a) Rousseau.
(b) Tennyson.
(c) Eliot.
(d) Aristotle.

3. According to Pound, who was the last of the philosophers to really "get hold of something" and among the last to worry about reconciling churches?
(a) Aristotle.
(b) Liebniz.
(c) Descartes.
(d) Holmes.

4. Pound cites one author as arguing that "Nicomachean Ethics" is a mass of what?
(a) Nonsense.
(b) Idiocy.
(c) Notes.
(d) Idioms.

5. What makes many great Greek tragedies boring, according to the author?
(a) Detailed translation.
(b) Unrelatable storylines.
(c) Attention to meaning above all else.
(d) Translations of translations.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Pound recommend in "Precedents?"

2. In Part IV, Section VII, Pound discusses "The ______ of Human Wishes".

3. What qualifies Pound to give the advice he does in "Maxims of Prudence?"

4. Who does the author claim was a great man in "Values?"

5. How many pages is "Monumental?"

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