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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.
Multiple Choice Questions
1. What type of people are the subject of "Sophists?"
(a) Physicians.
(b) Psychologists.
(c) Painters.
(d) Philosophers.
2. What author does Pound say is discussed enough, but not often read as a poet?
(a) D.H. Lawrence.
(b) Shakespeare.
(c) Oscar Wilde.
(d) T. S. Eliot.
3. Where does Pound reveal he worked in "The New Learning: Part Two?"
(a) The Smithsonian.
(b) The Louvre.
(c) The Vatican Library.
(d) The Library of Congress.
4. What does the author say about borrowing money?
(a) It will not happen ten years from now.
(b) It is a bad idea.
(c) It is a necessary evil.
(d) It is commonplace.
5. What was the focus of Rome, according to "Sparta 776 B.C.?"
(a) The spiritual.
(b) The government.
(c) The social.
(d) The military.
6. What is usury?
(a) Funding a war privately.
(b) Forcing the public to pay for war.
(c) Borrowing money.
(d) Charging interest on a loan.
7. How many pages is "Monumental?"
(a) Five.
(b) Three.
(c) Twelve.
(d) One.
8. Whose introduction in London does Pound praise?
(a) George Gordon, Lord Byron's.
(b) T. S. Eliot's.
(c) Dr. Johnson's.
(d) Anne Sexton's.
9. What length best describes the essays in Section I?
(a) Long.
(b) Short.
(c) Medium.
(d) Book-length.
10. What type of education does the author address in "The History of Philosophy Is ...?"
(a) Montessori.
(b) Seton.
(c) Self-schooling.
(d) Charlotte Mason.
11. What program of Pound's will bring ideas to everyone and all will know their positions?
(a) New learning.
(b) New religion.
(c) New culture.
(d) New philosophy.
12. In whose work does the idea of the vortex lie?
(a) Descartes.
(b) Leibniz.
(c) Plato.
(d) Gaudier-Brzeska.
13. What does Pound lament the decline of in "Zweck or the Aim?"
(a) Home education.
(b) Classical education.
(c) Liberal arts education.
(d) One-room schoolhouses.
14. Pound describes the "Tempio Malatestiano" as both an apex and a(n) ______.
(a) Stereotype.
(b) Failure.
(c) Innovation.
(d) Travesty.
15. In Part IV, Section VII, Pound discusses "The ______ of Human Wishes".
(a) Mercy.
(b) Hope.
(c) Vanity.
(d) Humility.
Short Answer Questions
1. Who is commended in "The History of Philosophy Is ...?"
2. Which sort of ideas are the men of today almost exclusively concerned with, according to Pound?
3. What philosopher is the subject of the first essay in Section I?
4. What requirement for confirmation in Christianity does Pound lament in the essay "Tradition?"
5. Whose ideas must the Catholic Church take seriously in order revive?
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