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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) Peace Corps.
(b) Federal Bureau of Investigation.
(c) League of Nations.
(d) United Nations.

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

3. Pound rejects the view that who should not study moral philosophy?
(a) Christians.
(b) College students.
(c) Pagans.
(d) The young.

4. 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?"
(a) "Time Lag."
(b) "The Culture of an Age."
(c) "Precedents."
(d) "The Novel and So Forth."

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What philosopher is discussed in "To Recapitulate?"

2. What does Pound believe is NOT a cold subject?

3. British observers have had a tone of disgust since when?

4. Whose life does Pound believe was in line with the best modern views?

5. Philosophy leads to the two mystical states of the ecstatic and ______ others.

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

8. Why are the Victorians significant to Pound?

9. What does Pound say about Plato in "To Recapitulate?"

10. What makes "Tone" a universal essay?

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