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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) German.
(c) English.
(d) French.

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

3. Whose influence does Pound think should be respected?
(a) Plato.
(b) Ovid.
(c) Aristotle.
(d) Confucious.

4. What does Pound say has become a nuisance in various European countries?
(a) Amateur philosophy.
(b) Paganism.
(c) Christianity.
(d) Public education.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What is the problem in Italy, according to Pound?

3. What is the longest essay of the book?

4. The epilogue discusses a man by what name?

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

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What does Pound say about Communism in "The Proof of the Pudding"?

3. Explain Pound's famous Cantos.

4. What makes "Tone" a universal essay?

5. Why are the Victorians significant to Pound?

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

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

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

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

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

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