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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. According to Pound, everyone is bothered by bad what?
(a) Vibes.
(b) Experiences.
(c) Tones.
(d) Friends.

3. What author is addressed at the beginning of "Study of Physiognomy?"
(a) Eliot.
(b) Aristotle.
(c) Rousseau.
(d) Tennyson.

4. What Italian intellectuals does Pound admire?
(a) Communist.
(b) Democratic.
(c) Fascist.
(d) Anarchist.

5. The man discussed in the epilogue is described as the last ______ mind.
(a) Psychological.
(b) Pathological.
(c) Philosophical.
(d) Pastoral.

6. Pound asks the reader to hesitate in what?
(a) Criticizing him.
(b) Re-reading him.
(c) Contacting him about the book.
(d) Ignoring him.

7. Pound cites one author as arguing that "Nicomachean Ethics" is a mass of what?
(a) Idiocy.
(b) Nonsense.
(c) Notes.
(d) Idioms.

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

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

10. How does the reader know which essays should be read?
(a) The ones to be read are marked with an asterisk in the Table of Contents.
(b) Pound lists them.
(c) Only one should be read.
(d) They should all be read.

11. Where does sovereignty rest, according to Pound?
(a) Money.
(b) Military might.
(c) Blood.
(d) Culture.

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

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

14. Whose autobiography has a lag between his death in 1861 and its publication in 1920?
(a) Lincoln.
(b) Hamilton.
(c) Jackson.
(d) Van Buren.

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

Short Answer 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?"

2. British observers have had a tone of disgust since when?

3. With what discussion does Pound open "The Recurring Decimal?"

4. What area of writing is the focus of "The Promised Land?"

5. Pound rejects the view that who should not study moral philosophy?

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