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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. What roots were the Church fathers lifted from?

2. Since when has American been imbecilic, according to Pound?

3. What is the problem in Italy, according to Pound?

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

5. What is based on ignoble elements?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What makes "Tone" a universal essay?

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

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

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

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

7. Explain Pound's famous Cantos.

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

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

What is an ode? Explain Pound's discussion of odes, particularly as they relate to culture and civilization.

Essay Topic 2

Identify, define, and explain the two mystical states Pound discusses in "Neo-Platonicks Etc."

Essay Topic 3

Explain "And Therefore Tending." Why does Pound choose to include this in "Guide to Kulchur" when it could have stood on its own as an independent work?

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