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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does the reader know which essays should be read?
(a) They should all be read.
(b) Only one should be read.
(c) Pound lists them.
(d) The ones to be read are marked with an asterisk in the Table of Contents.

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

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

4. What is the longest essay of the book?
(a) "Watch the Beaners."
(b) "Study of Physiognomy."
(c) "And Therefore Tending."
(d) "Pergamena Deest."

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

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

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

8. What kind of piece is "Guide to Kulchur?"
(a) Opus.
(b) Manifesto.
(c) Titular.
(d) Stunt.

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

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

11. What is said of the intellect of the man discussed in the epilogue?
(a) Average.
(b) Above-average.
(c) Mediocre.
(d) Genius.

12. 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.

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What Italian intellectuals does Pound admire?

2. Whose merits does Pound expound on in "Study of Physiognomy?"

3. Who have asked for almost no freedoms save to commit acts contrary to the general good?

4. The man discussed in the epilogue is described as the last ______ mind.

5. Pound wants people to know that Hadyn is similarly great to whom?

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