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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who is the author walking through a range of different artists in "Guide?"
(a) The uneducated.
(b) The products of American artists.
(c) Sociologists.
(d) Historians.

2. In whose work does the idea of the vortex lie?
(a) Plato.
(b) Leibniz.
(c) Gaudier-Brzeska.
(d) Descartes.

3. In "Aeschylus and ..." the author discusses the triumph of ______ over ______ in culture.
(a) Detail; meaning.
(b) Meaning; detail.
(c) History; spirituality.
(d) Spirituality; history.

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

5. What does Pound lament the decline of in "Zweck or the Aim?"
(a) Liberal arts education.
(b) One-room schoolhouses.
(c) Classical education.
(d) Home education.

6. "Great Bass: Part One" focuses on the ______ an ear can hear.
(a) Smallest vibrations.
(b) Lowest noises.
(c) Largest combination of frequencies.
(d) Highest noises.

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

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

9. 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.

10. Which sort of ideas are the men of today almost exclusively concerned with, according to Pound?
(a) Ideas that do not actually exist.
(b) Ideas that are meant to lead culture to evolve.
(c) Ideas that guide action and serve as rules of conduct.
(d) Ideas that guide action and serve as rules of conduct.

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

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

13. How does real knowledge go into men, according to the author?
(a) Through experience.
(b) All at once.
(c) In tidbits.
(d) From birth.

14. What is compared to culture in the essay "Vortex?"
(a) Literature.
(b) Theatre.
(c) Sculpture.
(d) Music.

15. What aspect of Greek epics have been given insufficient attention, according to Pound?
(a) Their settings.
(b) Their characters.
(c) Their authors.
(d) Their lessons.

Short Answer Questions

1. "Italy" argues that a vast civilization is contained within a few hundred Italian what?

2. What is the effect Pound sees in usury?

3. How long is "Maxims of Prudence?"

4. Whose introduction in London does Pound praise?

5. Pound describes the "Tempio Malatestiano" as both an apex and a(n) ______.

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