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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 many essays does Pound suggest the reader actually read?

2. How does Pound describe most Protestant parsons?

3. What Italian intellectuals does Pound admire?

4. Who does Pound briefly attack in "Royalty and All That?"

5. Since when has American been imbecilic, according to Pound?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. What is the subtitle of "The Culture of an Age"? What does it reveal about Pound and the essay?

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

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

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

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

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

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

Compare and contrast aristocracy and oligarchy. What are Pound's views on each? Which is a "better" form of government, according to Pound? Why?

Essay Topic 2

Explain the Victorian Age. How does Pound feel about Victorians? Be specific.

Essay Topic 3

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

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