View a FREE sample

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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How long is "Maxims of Prudence?"
(a) One page.
(b) Ten pages.
(c) Five pages.
(d) Three pages.

2. What does Pound lament the decline of in "Zweck or the Aim?"
(a) Liberal arts education.
(b) One-room schoolhouses.
(c) Classical education.
(d) Home education.

3. What was the focus of Rome, according to "Sparta 776 B.C.?"
(a) The spiritual.
(b) The military.
(c) The social.
(d) The government.

4. The moderns have a vortex of will and ______.
(a) Education.
(b) Spirituality.
(c) Consciousness.
(d) Free thought.

5. According to Pound, who was the last of the philosophers to really "get hold of something" and among the last to worry about reconciling churches?
(a) Aristotle.
(b) Descartes.
(c) Liebniz.
(d) Holmes.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the author see as swiftness in a given field?

2. What is one measure of civilization?

3. What is the first essay in Section II?

4. Who is the author walking through a range of different artists in "Guide?"

5. According to Pound, what nation is not civilized?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. What is Montessori education?

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

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

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

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

8. 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?

9. What does Pound say about code-worship in "Books 'About'"?

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

(see the answer keys)

This section contains 662 words (approx. 3 pages at 300 words per page) View a FREE sample