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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What of Pound's is rebuked in "Human Wishes?"
(a) Defense of poetry.
(b) Apology to T. S. Eliot.
(c) Slap-dash.
(d) Letter to the Editor.

2. "Savoir Faire" begins by asking what we mean to do when we ______.
(a) Debate.
(b) Learn.
(c) Write.
(d) Act.

3. How does real knowledge go into men, according to the author?
(a) Through experience.
(b) In tidbits.
(c) All at once.
(d) From birth.

4. According to Pound, what century involves much cultural decline?
(a) The 18th.
(b) The 19th.
(c) The 17th.
(d) The 20th.

5. What qualifies Pound to give the advice he does in "Maxims of Prudence?"
(a) His religion.
(b) HIs political affiliation.
(c) His age.
(d) His education.

Short Answer Questions

1. What program of Pound's will bring ideas to everyone and all will know their positions?

2. What did the moderns conquer?

3. Where does Pound reveal he worked in "The New Learning: Part Two?"

4. The author ends "The History of Philosophy Is ...?" with the claim that discoveries are made by whom?

5. In "The History of Philosophy Is ...?" the author notes that many philosophers tried to understand the world totally apart from what?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Pound say about the Catholic encyclical Quadrigesimo Anno?

2. What explanation does Pound give for translated Greek tragedies being boring?

3. How does Pound describe the Greeks and Christians in "Sparta 776 B.C.?"

4. What does Pound say about answering critics?

5. What is usury? How does Pound relate usury to rulers of people?

6. How do the ideas of examination of conscience and the decline of culture fit together in Pound's "Tradition?"

7. What does Pound say about professional philosophers before and after Liebniz?

8. What does Pound say about the lowest noises that can be heard?

9. Give an example of aesthetic criticism in "Guide to Kulchur".

10. Why does Pound say he created "Digest of the Analects?"

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