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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What is religious in "The Proof of the Pudding?"
(a) Literature.
(b) Culture.
(c) Music.
(d) Art.

3. What progresses through reviving the old and messing it up?
(a) Literature.
(b) Art.
(c) Fashion.
(d) Music.

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

5. What opposes the arts, melody, and design?
(a) The Industrial Age.
(b) Fascism.
(c) Usury.
(d) The Victorian Age.

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

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

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

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

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

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

12. 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) "The Novel and So Forth."
(c) "Precedents."
(d) "Time Lag."

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

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

15. Who does not measure up to Confucius, Homer, the Middle Ages, the Renaissance or even the present, according to "Pergamena Deest?"
(a) Aristotle.
(b) William Blake.
(c) Thomas Hobbes.
(d) Dr. Johnson.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which of the following institutions does Pound say is seen in the world today?

2. How many pages of notes did Pound use in writing "And Therefore Tending?"

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

4. What does Pound say "suits monkeys?"

5. Whose poetry does Pound want people to appreciate?

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