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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is one measure of civilization?
(a) Its fears.
(b) Its behavior toward families.
(c) Its government.
(d) Its hopes.

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. In Part IV, Section VII, Pound discusses "The ______ of Human Wishes".
(a) Humility.
(b) Hope.
(c) Vanity.
(d) Mercy.

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

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

6. In "Kulchur: Part Two," the author denies that knowledge is what?
(a) Key.
(b) Valuable.
(c) Culture.
(d) Wisdom.

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

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

9. What country's textbooks are addressed in "Textbooks?"
(a) Holland.
(b) Italy.
(c) France.
(d) Germany.

10. What makes many great Greek tragedies boring, according to the author?
(a) Translations of translations.
(b) Attention to meaning above all else.
(c) Detailed translation.
(d) Unrelatable storylines.

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

12. The first essay in Section I is called "______ of the Analects."
(a) Digest.
(b) Diary.
(c) Dialogue.
(d) Diatribe.

13. Who does Pound say people should not consult with?
(a) Fussy men.
(b) Small men.
(c) Large, busy men.
(d) Lazy men.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Pound discuss at the beginning of "Sparta 776 B.C.?"

2. What is the initial focus of "Ici Je Teste?"

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

4. What did the moderns conquer?

5. In whose work does the idea of the vortex lie?

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