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

2. Pound asks the reader to hesitate in what?
(a) Ignoring him.
(b) Criticizing him.
(c) Re-reading him.
(d) Contacting him about the book.

3. "Arabia Deserta" begins with discussions of old writings that identify high and low what?
(a) Royalty.
(b) Philosophies.
(c) Points in history.
(d) Cultures.

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

5. What Italian intellectuals does Pound admire?
(a) Fascist.
(b) Communist.
(c) Democratic.
(d) Anarchist.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who have asked for almost no freedoms save to commit acts contrary to the general good?

2. How does Pound feel about the philosopher discussed in "To Recapitulate?"

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

4. Which of the following institutions does Pound say is seen in the world today?

5. How does the reader know which essays should be read?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

8. Explain Pound's famous Cantos.

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

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

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