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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 habit does America have about history, according to Pound?
(a) Rewriting it.
(b) Slanting it.
(c) Ignoring it.
(d) Arguing it.

2. The epilogue discusses a man with what occupation?
(a) Professor.
(b) Accountant.
(c) Architect.
(d) Philosopher.

3. Whose culture is discussed in "The Promised Land?"
(a) Catholic.
(b) Hebrew.
(c) Protestant.
(d) Victorian.

4. Who does Pound believe is superior to Aristotle?
(a) Kung.
(b) Confucious.
(c) Eliot.
(d) Plato.

5. What universities does Pound discuss in the first essay in Part IV, Section IX?
(a) English.
(b) American.
(c) German.
(d) French.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does the reader know which essays should be read?

2. How many pages of notes did Pound use in writing "And Therefore Tending?"

3. Why would Pound not give the first book of the "Nicomachean Ethics" to a young man?

4. What philosopher is discussed in "To Recapitulate?"

5. What are men drunk with in philosophy?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does "Kung" say about Confucius?

2. What does pastoral mean? How does Pound use it in "Epilogue?"

3. In what book of "And Therefore Tending" does Pound's view of Aristotle change? How does it change?

4. What is the relationship between usury and the arts?

5. What losses does the essay "Losses" refer to?

6. According to "Arabia Deserta". what significance does economics have in a culture?

7. What three institutions are seen in the world, according to "Recapitulate"?

8. What does "Odes: Risks" explain about Confucian teaching?

9. What are the two mystical states explained by Pound? How do they affect philosophers?

10. Why are the Victorians significant to Pound?

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