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

2. What is said of the intellect of the man discussed in the epilogue?

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

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

5. The epilogue discusses a man with what occupation?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

9. What did Mussolini say about poetry? What does Pound think of this?

10. What makes "Tone" a universal essay?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

What are the three social diseases, according to Pound? Explain why and how they are social diseases, including a definition of what a social disease is.

Essay Topic 2

Explain "And Therefore Tending." Why does Pound choose to include this in "Guide to Kulchur" when it could have stood on its own as an independent work?

Essay Topic 3

Explain Pound's view of education.

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