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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. Pound asks the reader to hesitate in what?
(a) Re-reading him.
(b) Ignoring him.
(c) Criticizing him.
(d) Contacting him about the book.

2. What does Pound lament the decline of from the 19th century?
(a) Biology.
(b) Psychology.
(c) Sociology.
(d) Philosophy.

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

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

5. Whose autobiography has a lag between his death in 1861 and its publication in 1920?
(a) Hamilton.
(b) Jackson.
(c) Lincoln.
(d) Van Buren.

Short Answer Questions

1. What area of writing is the focus of "The Promised Land?"

2. In "Neo-Platonicks Etc.," Pound discusses philosophers that followed who?

3. Who have asked for almost no freedoms save to commit acts contrary to the general good?

4. Whose life does Pound believe was in line with the best modern views?

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

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. Why are the Victorians significant to Pound?

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

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

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

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

8. Explain Pound's famous Cantos.

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

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

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