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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 author is addressed at the beginning of "Study of Physiognomy?"
(a) Tennyson.
(b) Aristotle.
(c) Rousseau.
(d) Eliot.

2. How many pages of notes did Pound use in writing "And Therefore Tending?"
(a) 1.
(b) 100.
(c) 10.
(d) 40.

3. Where did Pound waste time studying?
(a) London.
(b) Paris.
(c) Madrid.
(d) New York.

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

5. The epilogue discusses a man by what name?
(a) Rivera.
(b) Reid.
(c) Richardson.
(d) Ricards.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Pound cites one author as arguing that "Nicomachean Ethics" is a mass of what?

3. What is based on ignoble elements?

4. What universities does Pound discuss in the first essay in Part IV, Section IX?

5. Who does Pound want to write for?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. Explain Pound's famous Cantos.

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

5. What significance does Grant have in American history, according to Pound?

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

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

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

9. What does "Kung" say about Confucius?

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

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