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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

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

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

5. Where were people sent for systemized information in Pound's youth?
(a) England.
(b) France.
(c) America.
(d) Germany.

6. What is the problem in Italy, according to Pound?
(a) Too much power.
(b) Lack of power.
(c) Religion.
(d) Usury.

7. Since when has American been imbecilic, according to Pound?
(a) 1900.
(b) 1776.
(c) 1865.
(d) 1931.

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

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

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

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

12. How does Pound describe the title "Guide to Kulchur?"
(a) Symbolic.
(b) Allegorical.
(c) Ridiculous.
(d) Intentional.

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

14. 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.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Whose autobiography has a lag between his death in 1861 and its publication in 1920?

2. According to Pound, everyone is bothered by bad what?

3. What universities does Pound discuss in the first essay in Part IV, Section IX?

4. How does Pound feel about the philosopher discussed in "To Recapitulate?"

5. The epilogue discusses a man by what name?

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