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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. The epilogue discusses a man from what city?
(a) London.
(b) Paris.
(c) New York.
(d) Vienna.

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

3. How many pages of notes did Pound use in writing "And Therefore Tending?"
(a) 40.
(b) 100.
(c) 1.
(d) 10.

4. What does Pound say American can learn from?
(a) The Constitution.
(b) Native American culture.
(c) Chinese history.
(d) European education models.

5. What area of writing is the focus of "The Promised Land?"
(a) Wilde's drama.
(b) English verse.
(c) Haiku.
(d) Shakespeare.

6. The man discussed in the epilogue is described as the last ______ mind.
(a) Pastoral.
(b) Philosophical.
(c) Psychological.
(d) Pathological.

7. Whose poetry does Pound want people to appreciate?
(a) George Gordon, Lord Byron.
(b) William Blake.
(c) Samuel Johnson.
(d) T. S. Eliot.

8. What opposes the arts, melody, and design?
(a) The Industrial Age.
(b) Usury.
(c) Fascism.
(d) The Victorian Age.

9. Who does not measure up to Confucius, Homer, the Middle Ages, the Renaissance or even the present, according to "Pergamena Deest?"
(a) William Blake.
(b) Aristotle.
(c) Thomas Hobbes.
(d) Dr. Johnson.

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

11. Pound rejects the view that who should not study moral philosophy?
(a) College students.
(b) Christians.
(c) Pagans.
(d) The young.

12. What is infamy and based on ignorance of the nature of money?
(a) The tax system.
(b) The business model.
(c) The banking system.
(d) The loan system.

13. What does Pound say has become a nuisance in various European countries?
(a) Amateur philosophy.
(b) Christianity.
(c) Public education.
(d) Paganism.

14. What is the longest essay of the book?
(a) "And Therefore Tending."
(b) "Study of Physiognomy."
(c) "Watch the Beaners."
(d) "Pergamena Deest."

15. What habit does America have about history, according to Pound?
(a) Rewriting it.
(b) Slanting it.
(c) Ignoring it.
(d) Arguing it.

Short Answer Questions

1. What happens to civilization when people prefer a small amount of great things to a large amount of average things?

2. Who have asked for almost no freedoms save to commit acts contrary to the general good?

3. What is based on ignoble elements?

4. British observers have had a tone of disgust since when?

5. Whose life does Pound believe was in line with the best modern views?

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