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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) Johnson.
(c) Confucious.
(d) Eliot.

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

3. Philosophy leads to the two mystical states of the ecstatic and ______ others.
(a) Oblivion about.
(b) Goodwill towards.
(c) Sense about.
(d) Connection with.

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

5. How does Pound describe "And Therefore Tending?"
(a) A brochure.
(b) A mission statement.
(c) An educational essay.
(d) An ode.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Who have asked for almost no freedoms save to commit acts contrary to the general good?

3. What essay is the the main title for the subtitle: "Is what you can pick up and/or get in touch with, by talk with the most intelligence men of the period?"

4. What does Pound say has become a nuisance in various European countries?

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

Short Essay Questions

1. What does "Odes: Risks" explain about Confucian teaching?

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

3. What makes "Tone" a universal essay?

4. In what book of "And Therefore Tending" does Pound's view of Aristotle change? How does it change?

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

6. What are the two mystical states explained by Pound? How do they affect philosophers?

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

8. What is the subtitle of "The Culture of an Age"? What does it reveal about Pound and the essay?

9. What is the relationship between usury and the arts?

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

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