View a FREE sample

This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Whose life does Pound believe was in line with the best modern views?
(a) Confucious.
(b) Tennyson.
(c) Eliot.
(d) Johnson.

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

3. How does Pound describe the title "Guide to Kulchur?"
(a) Allegorical.
(b) Ridiculous.
(c) Intentional.
(d) Symbolic.

4. Whose "Nicomachean Ethics" does Pound analyze?
(a) Plato.
(b) Aristotle.
(c) Confucious.
(d) Sophocles.

5. How does Pound feel about the philosopher discussed in "To Recapitulate?"
(a) He has not read him.
(b) He believes he does not measure up to other philosophers.
(c) He believes he should be removed from the canon.
(d) He thinks highly of him.

Short Answer Questions

1. What kind of piece is "Guide to Kulchur?"

2. What is is a mere bureaucracy full of hypocrites?

3. The epilogue discusses a man with what occupation?

4. The first essay in Part IV, Section IX is "Education or ______."

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

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

4. Why is "And Therefore Tending" such a long essay? What is its purpose?

5. What does "Kung" say about Confucius?

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

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

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

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

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

(see the answer keys)

This section contains 619 words (approx. 3 pages at 300 words per page) View a FREE sample