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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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) "The New Learning Part One."
(c) "Digest of the Analects."
(d) "Totalitarian."

2. What do bilingual classics tests and microfiche editions of music help?
(a) Personal creativity.
(b) The new learning.
(c) Understanding of culture.
(d) Expression of culture.

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

4. What did the moderns conquer?
(a) Spiritual open-mindedness.
(b) Philosophical discourse.
(c) Material reality.
(d) Economic stability.

5. What is not yet rotted by "usury" or the practice of making money from money?
(a) America.
(b) Asia.
(c) Europe.
(d) The Vatican.

6. What recent social encyclical comments on economic matters?
(a) Summorum Pontificum.
(b) Anglicanorum Coetibus.
(c) Annus Horribilius.
(d) Quadrigesimo Anno.

7. What did the author experience after finishing the book addressed in "Monumental?"
(a) Anger.
(b) Sadness.
(c) Joy.
(d) Catharsis.

8. What author does the author deal with in "Monumental?"
(a) Himself.
(b) T. S. Eliot.
(c) James Joyce.
(d) Franz Kafka.

9. What is the initial focus of "Ici Je Teste?"
(a) Aquinas and Descartes.
(b) American history.
(c) European education models.
(d) The Catholic Church.

10. Whose financial situation does the author discuss?
(a) Anaimandros.
(b) Aristotle.
(c) Parminedes.
(d) Zenophanes.

11. In what year does the author claim that a bloke with small means could still see the best of Europe?
(a) 1948.
(b) 1938.
(c) 1958.
(d) 1928.

12. How many essays are contained in Section I?
(a) Nine.
(b) Five.
(c) Three.
(d) Seven.

13. Whose preface does Pound label as "urbane?"
(a) T. S. Eliot's.
(b) Dr. Johnson's.
(c) Sir Walter Raleigh's.
(d) Franz Kafka's.

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

15. According to Pound, what century involves much cultural decline?
(a) The 20th.
(b) The 19th.
(c) The 18th.
(d) The 17th.

Short Answer Questions

1. What philosopher is the subject of the first essay in Section I?

2. What is the first essay in Section II?

3. According to Pound, what nation is not civilized?

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

5. How many pages is "Italy?"

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