Guide to Kulchur Quiz

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Questions 1-5 of 25:

1.

Whose "Divine Comedy" is included in Pound's list of books that must be read? (from Addenda: 1952, As Sextant, Introductory Textbook)

Dante.

Chaucer.

Eliot.

Shakespeare.

2.

Pound describes the "Tempio Malatestiano" as both an apex and a(n) ______. (from Part III, Section VI, Savoir Faire, The New Learning: Part Two, Examples of Civilization, Books)

Failure.

Innovation.

Stereotype.

Travesty.

3.

What does Pound recommend in "Precedents?" (from Part IV, Section VIII, Guide to Kulchur, The Proof of the Pudding, Canti, The Novel and So Forth, Precedents, On Arriving and Not Arriving, Praise Song of the Buck-Hare, Time-Lag, The Culture of an Age)

Important philosophers.

Important writers.

Important composers.

Important artists.

4.

What is the effect Pound sees in usury? (from Part III, Section VI, Savoir Faire, The New Learning: Part Two, Examples of Civilization, Books)

Destroying personal lives.

Destroying business.

Destroying families.

Destroying culture.

5.

What habit does America have about history, according to Pound? (from Part V, Section XI, Arabia Deserta, Kung, Chaucer Was Framed?, Happy Days, The Promised Land)

Ignoring it.

Slanting it.

Arguing it.

Rewriting it.

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