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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. Pound cites one author as arguing that "Nicomachean Ethics" is a mass of what?

2. Whose influence does Pound think should be respected?

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

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

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

Short Essay Questions

1. Explain Pound's famous Cantos.

2. Why are the Victorians significant to Pound?

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

4. What does "Odes: Risks" explain about Confucian teaching?

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

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

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

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

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

What is Pound's view of religion? How did he come to that view?

Essay Topic 2

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

Essay Topic 3

Explain Romanticism. How does Pound feel about Romanticism? Be specific.

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