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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.
Multiple Choice Questions
1. Whose culture is discussed in "The Promised Land?"
(a) Victorian.
(b) Hebrew.
(c) Catholic.
(d) Protestant.
2. What Italian intellectuals does Pound admire?
(a) Communist.
(b) Democratic.
(c) Fascist.
(d) Anarchist.
3. How does Pound describe most Protestant parsons?
(a) Misguided.
(b) Uncivilized.
(c) Disillusioned.
(d) Cultured.
4. Pound asks the reader to hesitate in what?
(a) Contacting him about the book.
(b) Re-reading him.
(c) Ignoring him.
(d) Criticizing him.
5. The first essay in Part IV, Section IX is "Education or ______."
(a) Culture.
(b) Knowledge.
(c) Information.
(d) Wisdom.
Short Answer Questions
1. What opposes the arts, melody, and design?
2. Whose autobiography has a lag between his death in 1861 and its publication in 1920?
3. What happens to civilization when people prefer a small amount of great things to a large amount of average things?
4. Whose influence does Pound think should be respected?
5. Hebrews are primitive what?
Short Essay Questions
1. What losses does the essay "Losses" refer to?
2. What does Pound say matters most, according to "Decline of the Adamses"?
3. What is the relationship between usury and the arts?
4. What three institutions are seen in the world, according to "Recapitulate"?
5. What does Pound argue about liberalism in "Decline of the Adamses"?
6. Explain Pound's famous Cantos.
7. What does Pound say about Plato in "To Recapitulate?"
8. What does pastoral mean? How does Pound use it in "Epilogue?"
9. What makes "Tone" a universal essay?
10. What does "Odes: Risks" explain about Confucian teaching?
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