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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Whose thought in London does Pound praise?
(a) Anne Sexton's.
(b) Dr. Johnson's.
(c) George Gordon, Lord Byron's.
(d) T. S. Eliot's.

3. When the author presents examples in "Aeschylus and ...," what does he say he is doing?
(a) Life experience demonstrations (LEDs).
(b) Practical application.
(c) Aesthetic criticism.
(d) "Show, don't tell."

4. After Liebniz, professional philosophers are just ______ blokes, according to Pound.
(a) Uneducated.
(b) Lazy.
(c) Amateur.
(d) Struggling.

5. How many essays are in Part IV, Section VII?
(a) One.
(b) Two.
(c) Four.
(d) Three.

6. What program of Pound's will bring ideas to everyone and all will know their positions?
(a) New religion.
(b) New culture.
(c) New philosophy.
(d) New learning.

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

8. What book does the author discuss in "Monumental?"
(a) "Ulysses."
(b) "The Waste Land."
(c) "Cantos."
(d) "The Metamorphosis."

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

10. Who must cut corners, according to "Kulchur: Part One?"
(a) Philosophers.
(b) Military rulers.
(c) Educators.
(d) Governmental rulers.

11. What of Pound's is rebuked in "Human Wishes?"
(a) Defense of poetry.
(b) Slap-dash.
(c) Letter to the Editor.
(d) Apology to T. S. Eliot.

12. Whose ideas must the Catholic Church take seriously in order revive?
(a) Plato.
(b) Pope John Paul II.
(c) Liebniz.
(d) Luther.

13. What philosopher is the subject of the first essay in Section I?
(a) Descartes.
(b) Confucius.
(c) Aristotle.
(d) Lao Tzu.

14. What was the focus of Rome, according to "Sparta 776 B.C.?"
(a) The government.
(b) The military.
(c) The spiritual.
(d) The social.

15. What is more important than knowledge?
(a) Culture.
(b) Nothing.
(c) Understanding.
(d) Experience.

Short Answer Questions

1. What recent social encyclical comments on economic matters?

2. Whose new "London" does Pound discuss?

3. According to the author, what survives because it is rooted in the idea of human universality?

4. The author ends "The History of Philosophy Is ...?" with the claim that discoveries are made by whom?

5. Most of the focus in "Guide" is on intellectuals from what country?

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