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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. What essay is the the main title for the subtitle: "Is what you can pick up and/or get in touch with, by talk with the most intelligence men of the period?"

2. What does Pound recommend in "Precedents?"

3. "Praise Song of the Buck-Hare" presents a poem written in what year?

4. What did England's special darkness cause an interruption in?

5. What roots were the Church fathers lifted from?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. What makes "Tone" a universal essay?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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 imagery and ideoplasty, and how Pound links them in his essay "March 12th."

Essay Topic 3

Explain Pound's view on usury, using specific examples from his essays to support your claims.

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