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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

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

4. Why would Pound not give the first book of the "Nicomachean Ethics" to a young man?
(a) It confuses.
(b) It is meant to be read last.
(c) It is incomplete.
(d) It is poorly written.

5. Who have asked for almost no freedoms save to commit acts contrary to the general good?
(a) Anarchists.
(b) Conservatives.
(c) Fascists.
(d) Liberals.

6. With what discussion does Pound open "The Recurring Decimal?"
(a) Odes.
(b) Mathematics.
(c) Economics.
(d) Haiku.

7. Pound cites one author as arguing that "Nicomachean Ethics" is a mass of what?
(a) Idiocy.
(b) Idioms.
(c) Notes.
(d) Nonsense.

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

9. Hebrews are primitive what?
(a) "Lemmings."
(b) Democrats.
(c) Aristocrats.
(d) Theocrats.

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

11. Pound asks the reader to hesitate in what?
(a) Contacting him about the book.
(b) Ignoring him.
(c) Criticizing him.
(d) Re-reading him.

12. What author is addressed at the beginning of "Study of Physiognomy?"
(a) Eliot.
(b) Rousseau.
(c) Aristotle.
(d) Tennyson.

13. What is the problem in Italy, according to Pound?
(a) Religion.
(b) Usury.
(c) Lack of power.
(d) Too much power.

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

15. Where does sovereignty rest, according to Pound?
(a) Blood.
(b) Money.
(c) Military might.
(d) Culture.

Short Answer Questions

1. How many essays does Pound suggest the reader actually read?

2. What roots were the Church fathers lifted from?

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

4. What philosopher is discussed in "To Recapitulate?"

5. Whose culture is discussed in "The Promised Land?"

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