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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 is based on ignoble elements?
(a) Culture.
(b) Philosophy.
(c) Art.
(d) Government.

2. How many essays does Pound suggest the reader actually read?
(a) One.
(b) Most.
(c) All.
(d) A few.

3. What is said of the intellect of the man discussed in the epilogue?
(a) Average.
(b) Genius.
(c) Mediocre.
(d) Above-average.

4. Pound rejects the view that who should not study moral philosophy?
(a) College students.
(b) The young.
(c) Christians.
(d) Pagans.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. According to Pound, everyone is bothered by bad what?

2. What philosopher is discussed in "To Recapitulate?"

3. What area of writing is the focus of "The Promised Land?"

4. Whose merits does Pound expound on in "Study of Physiognomy?"

5. How many pages of notes did Pound use in writing "And Therefore Tending?"

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. In what book of "And Therefore Tending" does Pound's view of Aristotle change? How does it change?

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

5. Explain Pound's famous Cantos.

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

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

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

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

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

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