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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part III, Section V, Values, Europe or the Setting, Sophists, Kulchur: Part One, Kulchur Part Two, March 12th, Textbooks.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. According to Pound, what century involves much cultural decline?
(a) The 19th.
(b) The 17th.
(c) The 18th.
(d) The 20th.

2. What program of Pound's will bring ideas to everyone and all will know their positions?
(a) New religion.
(b) New culture.
(c) New philosophy.
(d) New learning.

3. What is compared to culture in the essay "Vortex?"
(a) Literature.
(b) Theatre.
(c) Music.
(d) Sculpture.

4. Who is the author of "Guide to Kulchur"?
(a) T. S. Eliot.
(b) Ezra Pound.
(c) William Shakespeare.
(d) W. E. B. DuBois.

5. What essay is noted by the author to be dry, but that something worthwhile can come from reading it?
(a) "The New Learning Part One."
(b) "Sparta 776 B.C."
(c) "Totalitarian."
(d) "Digest of the Analects."

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What does Pound discuss at the beginning of "Sparta 776 B.C.?"

3. What country's textbooks are addressed in "Textbooks?"

4. Most of the focus in "Guide" is on intellectuals from what country?

5. In whose work does the idea of the vortex lie?

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