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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Pound wants people to know that Hadyn is similarly great to whom?
(a) Mozart.
(b) Beethoven.
(c) Bach.
(d) Vivaldi.

2. What does Pound say "suits monkeys?"
(a) Democracy.
(b) Dictatorship.
(c) Socialism.
(d) Communism.

3. British observers have had a tone of disgust since when?
(a) Henry VIII.
(b) Queen Victoria.
(c) The Revolutionary War.
(d) Queen Anne.

4. Where did Pound waste time studying?
(a) Madrid.
(b) Paris.
(c) New York.
(d) London.

5. What habit does America have about history, according to Pound?
(a) Slanting it.
(b) Rewriting it.
(c) Ignoring it.
(d) Arguing it.

6. Whose "Nicomachean Ethics" does Pound analyze?
(a) Aristotle.
(b) Confucious.
(c) Plato.
(d) Sophocles.

7. England after what suffered from a special darkness?
(a) World War I.
(b) World War II.
(c) Little Big Horn.
(d) Waterloo.

8. What is the problem in Italy, according to Pound?
(a) Lack of power.
(b) Usury.
(c) Religion.
(d) Too much power.

9. Hebrews are primitive what?
(a) Theocrats.
(b) Aristocrats.
(c) "Lemmings."
(d) Democrats.

10. Which of the following institutions does Pound say is seen in the world today?
(a) Anarchy.
(b) Democracy.
(c) Aristocracy.
(d) Monarchy.

11. The epilogue discusses a man with what occupation?
(a) Architect.
(b) Professor.
(c) Philosopher.
(d) Accountant.

12. Whose culture is discussed in "The Promised Land?"
(a) Protestant.
(b) Hebrew.
(c) Catholic.
(d) Victorian.

13. What is based on ignoble elements?
(a) Government.
(b) Philosophy.
(c) Culture.
(d) Art.

14. How does Pound feel about the philosopher discussed in "To Recapitulate?"
(a) He thinks highly of him.
(b) He has not read him.
(c) He believes he does not measure up to other philosophers.
(d) He believes he should be removed from the canon.

15. What did England's special darkness cause an interruption in?
(a) Religion.
(b) Education.
(c) Communication.
(d) Philosophy.

Short Answer Questions

1. How many pages of notes did Pound use in writing "And Therefore Tending?"

2. What progresses through reviving the old and messing it up?

3. Since when has American been imbecilic, according to Pound?

4. Philosophy leads to the two mystical states of the ecstatic and ______ others.

5. How does Pound describe "And Therefore Tending?"

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