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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 habit does America have about history, according to Pound?
(a) Rewriting it.
(b) Arguing it.
(c) Ignoring it.
(d) Slanting it.

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

3. Where were people sent for systemized information in Pound's youth?
(a) France.
(b) Germany.
(c) America.
(d) England.

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

5. "Praise Song of the Buck-Hare" presents a poem written in what year?
(a) 1920.
(b) 1792.
(c) 1866.
(d) 1861.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Pound lament the decline of from the 19th century?

2. Whose "Nicomachean Ethics" does Pound analyze?

3. Philosophy leads to the two mystical states of the ecstatic and ______ others.

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

5. Whose influence does Pound think should be respected?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

9. Why are the Victorians significant to Pound?

10. What does "Kung" say about Confucius?

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