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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. How many essays are contained in Section II?
(a) Five.
(b) Six.
(c) Two.
(d) Four.

2. In whose work does the idea of the vortex lie?
(a) Descartes.
(b) Plato.
(c) Gaudier-Brzeska.
(d) Leibniz.

3. Who was the grandfather of Descartes?
(a) Dante.
(b) Francis of Assisi.
(c) Aquinas.
(d) Thomas More.

4. What requirement for confirmation in Christianity does Pound lament in the essay "Tradition?"
(a) Allegience to an outdated religious model.
(b) Confession.
(c) Examination of consciousness.
(d) A course of intense study.

5. What author does Pound say is discussed enough, but not often read as a poet?
(a) Oscar Wilde.
(b) Shakespeare.
(c) T. S. Eliot.
(d) D.H. Lawrence.

Short Answer Questions

1. What qualifies Pound to give the advice he does in "Maxims of Prudence?"

2. What is the second essay in Part IV, Section VII?

3. Where does Pound reveal he worked in "The New Learning: Part Two?"

4. When the author presents examples in "Aeschylus and ...," what does he say he is doing?

5. According to Pound, everyone is bothered by bad what?

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