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

2. Who does Pound briefly attack in "Royalty and All That?"
(a) Stalin.
(b) Hitler.
(c) Lenin.
(d) Marx.

3. What is religious in "The Proof of the Pudding?"
(a) Music.
(b) Culture.
(c) Literature.
(d) Art.

4. Whose merits does Pound expound on in "Study of Physiognomy?"
(a) Chaucer.
(b) Shakespeare.
(c) Sophocles.
(d) Ovid.

5. Why would Pound not give the first book of the "Nicomachean Ethics" to a young man?
(a) It confuses.
(b) It is meant to be read last.
(c) It is poorly written.
(d) It is incomplete.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Pound describe "And Therefore Tending?"

2. Whose "Nicomachean Ethics" does Pound analyze?

3. How many essays does Pound suggest the reader actually read?

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

5. Pound asks the reader to hesitate in what?

Short Essay Questions

1. Explain Pound's famous Cantos.

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

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

4. Why is "And Therefore Tending" such a long essay? What is its purpose?

5. Why are the Victorians significant to Pound?

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

7. What does Pound say about Plato in "To Recapitulate?"

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

9. What does Pound say about culture in "On Arriving and Not Arriving"?

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

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