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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 roots were the Church fathers lifted from?
(a) Hebrew.
(b) Greek.
(c) Aramaic.
(d) Persian.

2. According to Pound, everyone is bothered by bad what?
(a) Vibes.
(b) Experiences.
(c) Tones.
(d) Friends.

3. How does the reader know which essays should be read?
(a) Only one should be read.
(b) The ones to be read are marked with an asterisk in the Table of Contents.
(c) They should all be read.
(d) Pound lists them.

4. Pound cites one author as arguing that "Nicomachean Ethics" is a mass of what?
(a) Idiocy.
(b) Idioms.
(c) Notes.
(d) Nonsense.

5. Philosophy leads to the two mystical states of the ecstatic and ______ others.
(a) Goodwill towards.
(b) Sense about.
(c) Oblivion about.
(d) Connection with.

Short Answer Questions

1. The epilogue discusses a man from what city?

2. What does Pound say "suits monkeys?"

3. Whose merits does Pound expound on in "Study of Physiognomy?"

4. What organization does Pound criticize in "Government?"

5. What did England's special darkness cause an interruption in?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Pound feel about "Guide to Kulchur"? How do you know?

2. What does "Kung" say about Confucius?

3. What does Pound say about Protestant parsons in "The Study of Physiognomy"?

4. What is the subtitle of "The Culture of an Age"? What does it reveal about Pound and the essay?

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

6. What does Pound say about Communism in "The Proof of the Pudding"?

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

8. What did Mussolini say about poetry? What does Pound think of this?

9. What is Pound's analysis of Aristotle in "Watch the Beaneries?"

10. What does Pound argue about liberalism in "Decline of the Adamses"?

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