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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What essay is the the main title for the subtitle: "Is what you can pick up and/or get in touch with, by talk with the most intelligence men of the period?"
(a) "The Culture of an Age."
(b) "Precedents."
(c) "Time Lag."
(d) "The Novel and So Forth."

2. How many pages of notes did Pound use in writing "And Therefore Tending?"
(a) 100.
(b) 40.
(c) 1.
(d) 10.

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

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

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

6. Whose influence does Pound think should be respected?
(a) Aristotle.
(b) Plato.
(c) Confucious.
(d) Ovid.

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

8. The epilogue discusses a man from what city?
(a) New York.
(b) Vienna.
(c) London.
(d) Paris.

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

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

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

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

13. What universities does Pound discuss in the first essay in Part IV, Section IX?
(a) German.
(b) French.
(c) American.
(d) English.

14. Who does Pound want to write for?
(a) The average man.
(b) The future leaders.
(c) The cultured.
(d) Educators.

15. What philosopher is discussed in "To Recapitulate?"
(a) Confucious.
(b) Hobbes.
(c) Descartes.
(d) Aristotle.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Pound describe the title "Guide to Kulchur?"

2. What does Pound say "suits monkeys?"

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

4. The enemies of mankind are those who ossify what?

5. Whose life does Pound believe was in line with the best modern views?

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