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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part V, Section X, Government, The Recurring Decimal, Decline of the Adamses, Royalty and All That.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is more important than knowledge?
(a) Experience.
(b) Nothing.
(c) Culture.
(d) Understanding.

2. What progresses through reviving the old and messing it up?
(a) Literature.
(b) Fashion.
(c) Art.
(d) Music.

3. Whose new "London" does Pound discuss?
(a) T. S. Eliot's.
(b) Alfred, Lord Tennyson's.
(c) Dr. Johnson's.
(d) Dr. Spock's.

4. What country's textbooks are addressed in "Textbooks?"
(a) Holland.
(b) Italy.
(c) France.
(d) Germany.

5. What are men drunk with in philosophy?
(a) Thought.
(b) Themselves.
(c) God.
(d) Philosophy.

Short Answer Questions

1. "Zweck or the Aim" argues that the point of writing is to what?

2. Who is commended in "The History of Philosophy Is ...?"

3. According to Pound, what century involves much cultural decline?

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

5. Who does the author claim was a great man in "Values?"

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