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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. The author says discoveries are made by men who can what?
(a) Endure.
(b) Listen.
(c) Understand.
(d) Study.

2. What is usury?
(a) Borrowing money.
(b) Charging interest on a loan.
(c) Funding a war privately.
(d) Forcing the public to pay for war.

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

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

5. Who is commended in "The History of Philosophy Is ...?"
(a) Aristotle.
(b) Descartes.
(c) Nietzsche.
(d) Plato.

Short Answer Questions

1. What type of education does the author address in "The History of Philosophy Is ...?"

2. The moderns have a vortex of will and ______.

3. The author argues that real knowledge does not jump from where to where?

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

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

(see the answer key)

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