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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. How does Pound describe "And Therefore Tending?"
(a) A mission statement.
(b) An ode.
(c) A brochure.
(d) An educational essay.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

10. What are men drunk with in philosophy?
(a) Thought.
(b) Philosophy.
(c) God.
(d) Themselves.

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

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

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

14. The epilogue discusses a man by what name?
(a) Ricards.
(b) Reid.
(c) Rivera.
(d) Richardson.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Why would Pound not give the first book of the "Nicomachean Ethics" to a young man?

2. England after what suffered from a special darkness?

3. Who does not measure up to Confucius, Homer, the Middle Ages, the Renaissance or even the present, according to "Pergamena Deest?"

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

5. What does Pound believe is NOT a cold subject?

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