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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

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 happens to civilization when people prefer a small amount of great things to a large amount of average things?

3. Whose poetry does Pound want people to appreciate?

4. What does Pound believe is NOT a cold subject?

5. What is the problem in Italy, according to Pound?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What does "Kung" say about Confucius?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Explain the Modernist movement. Explain how Pound's "Guide to Kulchur" fits into the Modernist movement.

Essay Topic 2

Identify and explain each of Pound's three important modes of thought.

Essay Topic 3

Explain the importance Pound places on reading and literature. How does he express his view that reading is imperative to understanding in "Guide to Kulchur"?

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