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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part IV, Section IX, Education or Information, Neo-Platonicks Etc., Losses, Odes: Risks, Great Bass: Part Two, Tone.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What types of artists are the subject of the author's observations in "Guide?"
(a) Performance artists.
(b) Installation artists.
(c) Sculptors.
(d) Painters.

2. How long is "Maxims of Prudence?"
(a) Ten pages.
(b) Five pages.
(c) One page.
(d) Three pages.

3. Which of the following is NOT one of the important modes of thought discussed in "Ici Je Teste?"
(a) Relation.
(b) Contemplation.
(c) Meditation.
(d) Cogitation.

4. Whose thought in London does Pound praise?
(a) T. S. Eliot's.
(b) Dr. Johnson's.
(c) George Gordon, Lord Byron's.
(d) Anne Sexton's.

5. According to Pound, who was the last of the philosophers to really "get hold of something" and among the last to worry about reconciling churches?
(a) Liebniz.
(b) Descartes.
(c) Aristotle.
(d) Holmes.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who does Pound say was wise to oppose usury?

2. What does Pound lament the decline of from the 19th century?

3. "Savoir Faire" begins by asking what we mean to do when we ______.

4. In "Aeschylus and ..." the author discusses the triumph of ______ over ______ in culture.

5. Whose introduction in London does Pound praise?

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