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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. Who does Pound believe is superior to Aristotle?

2. What is religious in "The Proof of the Pudding?"

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

4. How does the reader know which essays should be read?

5. What roots were the Church fathers lifted from?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

6. How does Pound feel about "Guide to Kulchur"? How do you know?

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

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

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

What are the three social diseases, according to Pound? Explain why and how they are social diseases, including a definition of what a social disease is.

Essay Topic 2

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?

Essay Topic 3

Compare and contrast aristocracy and oligarchy. What are Pound's views on each? Which is a "better" form of government, according to Pound? Why?

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