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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) English.
(b) American.
(c) German.
(d) French.

2. How does the reader know which essays should be read?
(a) The ones to be read are marked with an asterisk in the Table of Contents.
(b) Only one should be read.
(c) Pound lists them.
(d) They should all be read.

3. Who does Pound believe is superior to Aristotle?
(a) Kung.
(b) Eliot.
(c) Plato.
(d) Confucious.

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

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

6. What happens to civilization when people prefer a small amount of great things to a large amount of average things?
(a) It becomes influential.
(b) It becomes cultured.
(c) It becomes powerful.
(d) It becomes respectable.

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

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

9. What roots were the Church fathers lifted from?
(a) Persian.
(b) Hebrew.
(c) Greek.
(d) Aramaic.

10. Which of the following institutions does Pound say is seen in the world today?
(a) Democracy.
(b) Aristocracy.
(c) Anarchy.
(d) Monarchy.

11. England after what suffered from a special darkness?
(a) World War I.
(b) Waterloo.
(c) World War II.
(d) Little Big Horn.

12. What is religious in "The Proof of the Pudding?"
(a) Art.
(b) Culture.
(c) Music.
(d) Literature.

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

14. What does Pound believe is NOT a cold subject?
(a) Economics.
(b) Business.
(c) Biology.
(d) History.

15. Where were people sent for systemized information in Pound's youth?
(a) England.
(b) America.
(c) France.
(d) Germany.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is is a mere bureaucracy full of hypocrites?

2. The first essay in Part IV, Section IX is "Education or ______."

3. How does Pound describe "And Therefore Tending?"

4. What does Pound say American can learn from?

5. What is the problem in Italy, according to Pound?

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