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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. Who does Pound briefly attack in "Royalty and All That?"
(a) Marx.
(b) Stalin.
(c) Hitler.
(d) Lenin.

2. Pound asks the reader to hesitate in what?
(a) Criticizing him.
(b) Contacting him about the book.
(c) Ignoring him.
(d) Re-reading him.

3. Which sort of ideas are the men of today almost exclusively concerned with, according to Pound?
(a) Ideas that do not actually exist.
(b) Ideas that guide action and serve as rules of conduct.
(c) Ideas that guide action and serve as rules of conduct.
(d) Ideas that are meant to lead culture to evolve.

4. How many quotes from great Americans are reviewed in the Introductory Textbook?
(a) Ten.
(b) Four.
(c) Five.
(d) None.

5. In Part IV, Section VII, Pound discusses "The ______ of Human Wishes".
(a) Vanity.
(b) Humility.
(c) Mercy.
(d) Hope.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What organization does Pound criticize in "Government?"

3. What is the first sort of idea addressed in "The New Learning Part One?"

4. When the author presents examples in "Aeschylus and ...," what does he say he is doing?

5. What country's textbooks are addressed in "Textbooks?"

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