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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Addenda: 1952, As Sextant, Introductory Textbook.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What book does the author discuss in "Monumental?"
(a) "Ulysses."
(b) "Cantos."
(c) "The Waste Land."
(d) "The Metamorphosis."

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

3. Who authored the work Pound claims he did not comment on?
(a) Founding fathers of the United States.
(b) T. S. Eliot.
(c) The Roman Catholic Church.
(d) Aristotle.

4. In "March 12th," who gives serious answers to serious questions?
(a) The civilized man.
(b) The philosopher.
(c) The educated man.
(d) Government officials.

5. How does Pound describe most Protestant parsons?
(a) Cultured.
(b) Disillusioned.
(c) Misguided.
(d) Uncivilized.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the problem in Italy, according to Pound?

2. How many essays are contained in Section II?

3. Where were people sent for systemized information in Pound's youth?

4. What requirement for confirmation in Christianity does Pound lament in the essay "Tradition?"

5. What did England's special darkness cause an interruption in?

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