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

2. Where does sovereignty rest, according to Pound?
(a) Culture.
(b) Blood.
(c) Money.
(d) Military might.

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

4. What is based on ignoble elements?
(a) Art.
(b) Philosophy.
(c) Culture.
(d) Government.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. "Praise Song of the Buck-Hare" presents a poem written in what year?

2. Pound rejects the view that who should not study moral philosophy?

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

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

5. With what discussion does Pound open "The Recurring Decimal?"

Short Essay Questions

1. What makes "Tone" a universal essay?

2. What does Pound say matters most, according to "Decline of the Adamses"?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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