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

2. What did England's special darkness cause an interruption in?
(a) Education.
(b) Religion.
(c) Philosophy.
(d) Communication.

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

4. What opposes the arts, melody, and design?
(a) The Victorian Age.
(b) The Industrial Age.
(c) Fascism.
(d) Usury.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Who does not measure up to Confucius, Homer, the Middle Ages, the Renaissance or even the present, according to "Pergamena Deest?"

2. What habit does America have about history, according to Pound?

3. What does Pound recommend in "Precedents?"

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

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

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

6. Explain Pound's famous Cantos.

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

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

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

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

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