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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 life does Pound believe was in line with the best modern views?
(a) Tennyson.
(b) Eliot.
(c) Johnson.
(d) Confucious.

2. In "Neo-Platonicks Etc.," Pound discusses philosophers that followed who?
(a) Plato.
(b) Neon Nickes.
(c) Hobbes.
(d) Confucious.

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

4. Whose influence does Pound think should be respected?
(a) Aristotle.
(b) Ovid.
(c) Plato.
(d) Confucious.

5. British observers have had a tone of disgust since when?
(a) The Revolutionary War.
(b) Queen Anne.
(c) Henry VIII.
(d) Queen Victoria.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Pound cites one author as arguing that "Nicomachean Ethics" is a mass of what?

3. Pound rejects the view that who should not study moral philosophy?

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

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

Short Essay Questions

1. What three institutions are seen in the world, according to "Recapitulate"?

2. What does Pound say about Communism in "The Proof of the Pudding"?

3. What does Pound say matters most, according to "Decline of the Adamses"?

4. What losses does the essay "Losses" refer to?

5. What is Pound's analysis of Aristotle in "Watch the Beaneries?"

6. What does Pound say about Protestant parsons in "The Study of Physiognomy"?

7. What significance does Grant have in American history, according to Pound?

8. What does "Kung" say about Confucius?

9. What did Mussolini say about poetry? What does Pound think of this?

10. Explain Pound's famous Cantos.

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