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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. What organization does Pound criticize in "Government?"
(a) League of Nations.
(b) United Nations.
(c) Peace Corps.
(d) Federal Bureau of Investigation.

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

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

4. What area of writing is the focus of "The Promised Land?"
(a) Wilde's drama.
(b) Haiku.
(c) English verse.
(d) Shakespeare.

5. Whose merits does Pound expound on in "Study of Physiognomy?"
(a) Sophocles.
(b) Chaucer.
(c) Shakespeare.
(d) Ovid.

Short Answer Questions

1. Hebrews are primitive what?

2. What does Pound recommend in "Precedents?"

3. Whose "Nicomachean Ethics" does Pound analyze?

4. Who does Pound believe is superior to Aristotle?

5. Where did Pound waste time studying?

Short Essay Questions

1. According to "Arabia Deserta". what significance does economics have in a culture?

2. What does pastoral mean? How does Pound use it in "Epilogue?"

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

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

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

6. Why is "And Therefore Tending" such a long essay? What is its purpose?

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

8. What does Pound say about culture in "On Arriving and Not Arriving"?

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

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

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