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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who does Pound briefly attack in "Royalty and All That?"
(a) Stalin.
(b) Lenin.
(c) Hitler.
(d) Marx.

2. What kind of piece is "Guide to Kulchur?"
(a) Titular.
(b) Manifesto.
(c) Stunt.
(d) Opus.

3. "Praise Song of the Buck-Hare" presents a poem written in what year?
(a) 1866.
(b) 1861.
(c) 1920.
(d) 1792.

4. Who have asked for almost no freedoms save to commit acts contrary to the general good?
(a) Liberals.
(b) Anarchists.
(c) Fascists.
(d) Conservatives.

5. With what discussion does Pound open "The Recurring Decimal?"
(a) Haiku.
(b) Mathematics.
(c) Odes.
(d) Economics.

6. Why would Pound not give the first book of the "Nicomachean Ethics" to a young man?
(a) It is poorly written.
(b) It is meant to be read last.
(c) It confuses.
(d) It is incomplete.

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

8. What happens to civilization when people prefer a small amount of great things to a large amount of average things?
(a) It becomes influential.
(b) It becomes cultured.
(c) It becomes respectable.
(d) It becomes powerful.

9. Pound rejects the view that who should not study moral philosophy?
(a) College students.
(b) Christians.
(c) The young.
(d) Pagans.

10. What opposes the arts, melody, and design?
(a) The Industrial Age.
(b) The Victorian Age.
(c) Usury.
(d) Fascism.

11. Philosophy leads to the two mystical states of the ecstatic and ______ others.
(a) Oblivion about.
(b) Goodwill towards.
(c) Connection with.
(d) Sense about.

12. What does Pound recommend in "Precedents?"
(a) Important composers.
(b) Important writers.
(c) Important philosophers.
(d) Important artists.

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

14. What does Pound say American can learn from?
(a) Chinese history.
(b) The Constitution.
(c) European education models.
(d) Native American culture.

15. What progresses through reviving the old and messing it up?
(a) Art.
(b) Fashion.
(c) Music.
(d) Literature.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did England's special darkness cause an interruption in?

2. "Arabia Deserta" begins with discussions of old writings that identify high and low what?

3. What habit does America have about history, according to Pound?

4. Where did Pound waste time studying?

5. What does Pound lament the decline of from the 19th century?

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