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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 progresses through reviving the old and messing it up?
(a) Literature.
(b) Art.
(c) Fashion.
(d) Music.

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

3. Pound wants people to know that Hadyn is similarly great to whom?
(a) Beethoven.
(b) Vivaldi.
(c) Mozart.
(d) Bach.

4. British observers have had a tone of disgust since when?
(a) Queen Anne.
(b) The Revolutionary War.
(c) Henry VIII.
(d) Queen Victoria.

5. What is religious in "The Proof of the Pudding?"
(a) Literature.
(b) Art.
(c) Culture.
(d) Music.

Short Answer Questions

1. Since when has American been imbecilic, according to Pound?

2. Whose culture is discussed in "The Promised Land?"

3. What does Pound recommend in "Precedents?"

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

5. Where does sovereignty rest, according to Pound?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. Explain Pound's famous Cantos.

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

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

5. What does "Kung" say about Confucius?

6. What is the subtitle of "The Culture of an Age"? What does it reveal about Pound and the essay?

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

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

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

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

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