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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 is usury?
(a) Charging interest on a loan.
(b) Forcing the public to pay for war.
(c) Borrowing money.
(d) Funding a war privately.

2. According to the author, what survives because it is rooted in the idea of human universality?
(a) Literature.
(b) Christianity.
(c) Mathematics.
(d) Music.

3. What makes many great Greek tragedies boring, according to the author?
(a) Detailed translation.
(b) Attention to meaning above all else.
(c) Translations of translations.
(d) Unrelatable storylines.

4. What philosopher is the subject of the first essay in Section I?
(a) Lao Tzu.
(b) Descartes.
(c) Confucius.
(d) Aristotle.

5. What science is addressed in "Kulchur: Part One?"
(a) Physics.
(b) Biology.
(c) Astronomy.
(d) Psychology.

Short Answer Questions

1. What country's textbooks are addressed in "Textbooks?"

2. What does Pound lament the decline of in "Zweck or the Aim?"

3. What is the effect Pound sees in usury?

4. Whose preface does Pound label as "urbane?"

5. What is the first essay in Section II?

Short Essay Questions

1. What did H. L. Mencken write to Pound about usury? What was Pound's response?

2. What does Pound seek in "Guide to Kulchur: Part Two"?

3. What does Pound say about Shakespeare's plays? About his poetry?

4. How does Pound's view of Dr. Johnson's 'London' and T. S. Eliot's preface in it change after he breaks from them to discuss various writings?

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

6. What does Pound say about answering critics?

7. What does Pound say about philosophers in the opening of "The History of Philosophy Is ...?"

8. What elements are included in poetry, according to "March 12th"?

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

10. What is Montessori education?

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