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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part III, Section VI, Savoir Faire, The New Learning: Part Two, Examples of Civilization, Books.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. After Liebniz, professional philosophers are just ______ blokes, according to Pound.
(a) Uneducated.
(b) Amateur.
(c) Lazy.
(d) Struggling.

2. What important structures are discussed in "Examples of Civilization?"
(a) Religious.
(b) Political.
(c) Architectural.
(d) Cultural.

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

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

5. In "Kulchur: Part Two," the author denies that knowledge is what?
(a) Wisdom.
(b) Culture.
(c) Key.
(d) Valuable.

Short Answer Questions

1. "Italy" argues that a vast civilization is contained within a few hundred Italian what?

2. Where will newness NOT be missed?

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

4. What requirement for confirmation in Christianity does Pound lament in the essay "Tradition?"

5. How does real knowledge go into men, according to the author?

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