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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. Who does the author claim was a great man in "Values?"
(a) Mussolini.
(b) Hitler.
(c) Lenin.
(d) Castro.

2. Civilization involves a sound balance of what?
(a) Arts and science.
(b) Values.
(c) People.
(d) Education.

3. Pound wants people to know that Hadyn is similarly great to whom?
(a) Vivaldi.
(b) Bach.
(c) Beethoven.
(d) Mozart.

4. What habit does America have about history, according to Pound?
(a) Ignoring it.
(b) Slanting it.
(c) Rewriting it.
(d) Arguing it.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Where does sovereignty rest, according to Pound?

2. What does the author see as swiftness in a given field?

3. What is usury?

4. In "March 12th," who gives serious answers to serious questions?

5. What does Pound say "suits monkeys?"

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