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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. "Zweck or the Aim" argues that the point of writing is to what?
(a) Reveal the whole subject from a new angle.
(b) Share human experience.
(c) Record a culture's history for future generations.
(d) Tell the truth.

2. What is usury?
(a) Borrowing money.
(b) Forcing the public to pay for war.
(c) Charging interest on a loan.
(d) Funding a war privately.

3. What is the title of the larger work that "Heaulmiere" is from?
(a) Vivaldi.
(b) Wagner.
(c) Stefan.
(d) Villon.

4. What percentage of the time should one not respond to criticisms of one's artwork?
(a) 0.
(b) 99.
(c) 10.
(d) 100.

5. England after what suffered from a special darkness?
(a) Waterloo.
(b) World War II.
(c) World War I.
(d) Little Big Horn.

Short Answer Questions

1. Whose life does Pound believe was in line with the best modern views?

2. Ancient Chinese sculpture had a vortex of intense ______.

3. The moderns have a vortex of will and ______.

4. Who authored the work Pound claims he did not comment on?

5. In "Aeschylus and ..." the author discusses the triumph of ______ over ______ in culture.

(see the answer key)

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