A Mencken Chrestomathy Quiz | Eight Week Quiz F

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A Mencken Chrestomathy Quiz | Eight Week Quiz F

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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 23, Souvenirs of a Journalist, Chapter 24, Criticism.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Which is NOT one of Mencken's view of humankind as expressed in Chapter 1?
(a) Man is full of errors.
(b) Man is prone to believe in ridiculous things.
(c) Man is the product of random and meaningless processes.
(d) Man is the center of the universe, and rightly so.

2. What was "unusual" about Mr. Gray?
(a) He refused to give his real name to Mencken.
(b) He could not remember faces.
(c) He was a victim of leprosy.
(d) He was electrocuted to death.

3. Mencken compares Theodore Roosevelt's political ideas to which other politician's?
(a) A Japanese feudal lord.
(b) The United State's William Jennings Bryan.
(c) England's Queen.
(d) Germany's Kaiser.

4. What do men become once they accumulate wealth?
(a) More amorous.
(b) Stingier.
(c) Stupider.
(d) Nicer.

5. What quality makes for the best literary critic, according to Chapter 24?
(a) Adhering to a specific philosophical system.
(b) Advancing a personal agenda or doctrine.
(c) The goal to create a work of art.
(d) Accuracy and a need to refute error.

Short Answer Questions

1. How intelligent are women according to Mencken?

2. What is Mencken's opinion of the belief that man has a soul, according to Chapter 1?

3. What kind of men does a democracy produce?

4. What does Mencken say about the nature of scientific hypotheses?

5. What does Mencken believe about the universality of morality?

(see the answer key)

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