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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. How does Pound describe most Protestant parsons?

2. Pound rejects the view that who should not study moral philosophy?

3. What is infamy and based on ignorance of the nature of money?

4. What are men drunk with in philosophy?

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

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. What does Pound say about Protestant parsons in "The Study of Physiognomy"?

4. Why are the Victorians significant to Pound?

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

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

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Explain Pound's view of education.

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 perspective on Confucius and Chinese culture. What specific benefits does he associated with studying Chinese history and culture?

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