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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does Pound describe most Protestant parsons?
(a) Misguided.
(b) Uncivilized.
(c) Cultured.
(d) Disillusioned.

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

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

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

5. What does Pound say American can learn from?
(a) The Constitution.
(b) Chinese history.
(c) Native American culture.
(d) European education models.

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

7. What does Pound lament the decline of from the 19th century?
(a) Sociology.
(b) Psychology.
(c) Philosophy.
(d) Biology.

8. What does Pound say "suits monkeys?"
(a) Socialism.
(b) Democracy.
(c) Communism.
(d) Dictatorship.

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

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

11. What does Pound say has become a nuisance in various European countries?
(a) Christianity.
(b) Amateur philosophy.
(c) Paganism.
(d) Public education.

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

13. How many pages of notes did Pound use in writing "And Therefore Tending?"
(a) 40.
(b) 10.
(c) 100.
(d) 1.

14. How many essays does Pound suggest the reader actually read?
(a) Most.
(b) All.
(c) A few.
(d) One.

15. What universities does Pound discuss in the first essay in Part IV, Section IX?
(a) English.
(b) German.
(c) French.
(d) American.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is based on ignoble elements?

2. The epilogue discusses a man with what occupation?

3. Pound cites one author as arguing that "Nicomachean Ethics" is a mass of what?

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

5. What is said of the intellect of the man discussed in the epilogue?

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