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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the second sort of idea addressed in "The New Learning Part One?"
(a) Ideas that exist and are discussed in a vacuum.
(b) Ideas that guide action and serve as rules of conduct.
(c) Ideas that are meant to lead culture to evolve.
(d) Ideas that do not actually exist.

2. "Italy" argues that a vast civilization is contained within a few hundred Italian what?
(a) Painters.
(b) Writers.
(c) Musicians.
(d) Sculptors.

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

4. What does the author see as swiftness in a given field?
(a) Being genuine.
(b) Being strong.
(c) Being a leader.
(d) Being compassionate.

5. What did the author experience after finishing the book addressed in "Monumental?"
(a) Sadness.
(b) Joy.
(c) Anger.
(d) Catharsis.

6. "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.

7. What of Pound's is rebuked in "Human Wishes?"
(a) Apology to T. S. Eliot.
(b) Defense of poetry.
(c) Letter to the Editor.
(d) Slap-dash.

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

9. Whose introduction in London does Pound praise?
(a) Dr. Johnson's.
(b) T. S. Eliot's.
(c) George Gordon, Lord Byron's.
(d) Anne Sexton's.

10. The author argues that real knowledge does not jump from where to where?
(a) The pen to the stage.
(b) The mind to the pen.
(c) The mind to the page.
(d) The page to the mind.

11. Where will newness NOT be missed?
(a) Colleges.
(b) Daily newspapers.
(c) Family oral traditions.
(d) Public education.

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

13. What types of artists are the subject of the author's observations in "Guide?"
(a) Sculptors.
(b) Installation artists.
(c) Performance artists.
(d) Painters.

14. Who is the author walking through a range of different artists in "Guide?"
(a) Sociologists.
(b) The uneducated.
(c) The products of American artists.
(d) Historians.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What essay is noted by the author to be dry, but that something worthwhile can come from reading it?

2. What author does Pound say is discussed enough, but not often read as a poet?

3. How many essays are contained in Section I?

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

5. What author does the author deal with in "Monumental?"

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