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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. How many essays are in Part IV, Section VII?
(a) Two.
(b) One.
(c) Three.
(d) Four.

2. How many pages is "Italy?"
(a) Seven.
(b) Three.
(c) One.
(d) Two.

3. What length best describes the essays in Section I?
(a) Long.
(b) Medium.
(c) Short.
(d) Book-length.

4. "Zweck or the Aim" argues that the point of writing is to what?
(a) Share human experience.
(b) Tell the truth.
(c) Reveal the whole subject from a new angle.
(d) Record a culture's history for future generations.

5. The first essay in Section I is called "______ of the Analects."
(a) Dialogue.
(b) Diatribe.
(c) Digest.
(d) Diary.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Whose ideas must the Catholic Church take seriously in order revive?

3. "Great Bass: Part One" focuses on the ______ an ear can hear.

4. What was the focus of Rome, according to "Sparta 776 B.C.?"

5. What essay is noted by the author to be dry, but that something worthwhile can come from reading it?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Pound say about knowledge and culture in "Guide to Kulchur: Part Two"?

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

3. 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?

4. Explain the essay "Values."

5. What does "Vortex" say about sculpture?

6. What does "Guide to Kulchur: Part One" say about things that cannot be understood? How does this apply to philosophy?

7. According to Pound, why do people write?

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

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

10. How does Pound feel about "The New Learning?"

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