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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part V, Section XI, Arabia Deserta, Kung, Chaucer Was Framed?, Happy Days, The Promised Land.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What type of people are the subject of "Sophists?"
(a) Painters.
(b) Philosophers.
(c) Psychologists.
(d) Physicians.

2. Whose poetry does Pound want people to appreciate?
(a) George Gordon, Lord Byron.
(b) Samuel Johnson.
(c) William Blake.
(d) T. S. Eliot.

3. Whose financial situation does the author discuss?
(a) Anaimandros.
(b) Aristotle.
(c) Parminedes.
(d) Zenophanes.

4. What does Pound recommend in "Precedents?"
(a) Important artists.
(b) Important philosophers.
(c) Important composers.
(d) Important writers.

5. What kind of minds are of great value, especially in a rotted milieu?
(a) Self-serving.
(b) Greedy.
(c) Disordered.
(d) Short-sighted.

Short Answer Questions

1. Whose autobiography has a lag between his death in 1861 and its publication in 1920?

2. "Arabia Deserta" begins with discussions of old writings that identify high and low what?

3. What is usury?

4. Pound wants people to know that Hadyn is similarly great to whom?

5. What composer does the author comment on in "Kulchur: Part Two?"

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