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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What universities does Pound discuss in the first essay in Part IV, Section IX?
(a) German.
(b) French.
(c) English.
(d) American.

2. Whose "Nicomachean Ethics" does Pound analyze?
(a) Plato.
(b) Sophocles.
(c) Confucious.
(d) Aristotle.

3. What philosopher is discussed in "To Recapitulate?"
(a) Aristotle.
(b) Descartes.
(c) Hobbes.
(d) Confucious.

4. Pound wants people to know that Hadyn is similarly great to whom?
(a) Bach.
(b) Mozart.
(c) Vivaldi.
(d) Beethoven.

5. Since when has American been imbecilic, according to Pound?
(a) 1865.
(b) 1931.
(c) 1900.
(d) 1776.

6. What is is a mere bureaucracy full of hypocrites?
(a) The Lutheran Church.
(b) The Church of Rome.
(c) The English Church.
(d) The Baptist Church.

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

8. Where did Pound waste time studying?
(a) Paris.
(b) New York.
(c) London.
(d) Madrid.

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

10. Who does Pound want to write for?
(a) The future leaders.
(b) The cultured.
(c) Educators.
(d) The average man.

11. What does Pound lament the decline of from the 19th century?
(a) Sociology.
(b) Philosophy.
(c) Psychology.
(d) Biology.

12. Whose culture is discussed in "The Promised Land?"
(a) Protestant.
(b) Catholic.
(c) Hebrew.
(d) Victorian.

13. How does Pound describe the title "Guide to Kulchur?"
(a) Symbolic.
(b) Intentional.
(c) Ridiculous.
(d) Allegorical.

14. How does Pound feel about the philosopher discussed in "To Recapitulate?"
(a) He believes he should be removed from the canon.
(b) He believes he does not measure up to other philosophers.
(c) He thinks highly of him.
(d) He has not read him.

15. How does Pound describe most Protestant parsons?
(a) Misguided.
(b) Cultured.
(c) Uncivilized.
(d) Disillusioned.

Short Answer Questions

1. Whose influence does Pound think should be respected?

2. What habit does America have about history, according to Pound?

3. Which of the following institutions does Pound say is seen in the world today?

4. Why would Pound not give the first book of the "Nicomachean Ethics" to a young man?

5. What did England's special darkness cause an interruption in?

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