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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. "Great Bass: Part One" focuses on the ______ an ear can hear.
(a) Lowest noises.
(b) Smallest vibrations.
(c) Highest noises.
(d) Largest combination of frequencies.

2. What makes many great Greek tragedies boring, according to the author?
(a) Translations of translations.
(b) Attention to meaning above all else.
(c) Unrelatable storylines.
(d) Detailed translation.

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

4. Where does Pound reveal he worked in "The New Learning: Part Two?"
(a) The Smithsonian.
(b) The Library of Congress.
(c) The Vatican Library.
(d) The Louvre.

5. What is the effect Pound sees in usury?
(a) Destroying families.
(b) Destroying culture.
(c) Destroying business.
(d) Destroying personal lives.

Short Answer Questions

1. In "The History of Philosophy Is ...?" the author notes that many philosophers tried to understand the world totally apart from what?

2. What universities does Pound discuss in the first essay in Part IV, Section IX?

3. According to Pound, what nation is not civilized?

4. Whose thought in London does Pound praise?

5. What is not yet rotted by "usury" or the practice of making money from money?

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