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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 not measure up to Confucius, Homer, the Middle Ages, the Renaissance or even the present, according to "Pergamena Deest?"
(a) Thomas Hobbes.
(b) William Blake.
(c) Aristotle.
(d) Dr. Johnson.

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

3. What universities does Pound discuss in the first essay in Part IV, Section IX?
(a) German.
(b) American.
(c) French.
(d) English.

4. What does Pound say "suits monkeys?"
(a) Communism.
(b) Democracy.
(c) Dictatorship.
(d) Socialism.

5. What does Pound recommend in "Precedents?"
(a) Important writers.
(b) Important philosophers.
(c) Important composers.
(d) Important artists.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why would Pound not give the first book of the "Nicomachean Ethics" to a young man?

2. The enemies of mankind are those who ossify what?

3. Where were people sent for systemized information in Pound's youth?

4. Pound asks the reader to hesitate in what?

5. What Italian intellectuals does Pound admire?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. Why are the Victorians significant to Pound?

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

4. What makes "Tone" a universal essay?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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