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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 was the grandfather of Descartes?
(a) Francis of Assisi.
(b) Thomas More.
(c) Aquinas.
(d) Dante.

2. The author argues that real knowledge does not jump from where to where?
(a) The pen to the stage.
(b) The page to the mind.
(c) The mind to the page.
(d) The mind to the pen.

3. What essay is noted by the author to be dry, but that something worthwhile can come from reading it?
(a) "Sparta 776 B.C."
(b) "Totalitarian."
(c) "The New Learning Part One."
(d) "Digest of the Analects."

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

5. What is based on ignoble elements?
(a) Philosophy.
(b) Culture.
(c) Art.
(d) Government.

Short Answer Questions

1. How many quotes from great Americans are reviewed in the Introductory Textbook?

2. How does Pound describe the title "Guide to Kulchur?"

3. The first essay in Section I is called "______ of the Analects."

4. What is infamy and based on ignorance of the nature of money?

5. What recent social encyclical comments on economic matters?

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