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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. The first essay in Part IV, Section IX is "Education or ______."
(a) Culture.
(b) Wisdom.
(c) Information.
(d) Knowledge.

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

4. "Arabia Deserta" begins with discussions of old writings that identify high and low what?
(a) Philosophies.
(b) Royalty.
(c) Cultures.
(d) Points in history.

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

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

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

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

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

10. 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 is poorly written.
(c) It is incomplete.
(d) It confuses.

11. In "Neo-Platonicks Etc.," Pound discusses philosophers that followed who?
(a) Neon Nickes.
(b) Plato.
(c) Hobbes.
(d) Confucious.

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

13. Who does Pound believe is superior to Aristotle?
(a) Confucious.
(b) Plato.
(c) Eliot.
(d) Kung.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What author is addressed at the beginning of "Study of Physiognomy?"

3. How does the reader know which essays should be read?

4. What opposes the arts, melody, and design?

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

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