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

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

3. What was Mencken's opinion of New Deal programs?
(a) They imbued average Americans with a rugged individual spirit.
(b) They were great boons to mankind.
(c) They were disastrous in practice.
(d) They were theoretically dubious, but worked okay in practice.

4. What year did the New Deal programs begin?
(a) 1919.
(b) 1945.
(c) 1933.
(d) 1939.

5. Which is NOT one of the negative effects Mencken mentions in regards to Prohibition?
(a) Undermining of state revenues.
(b) More expensive alcohol.
(c) Only the poor have access to alcohol.
(d) Proliferation of bootleggers.

Short Answer Questions

1. Mencken reports on a boxing with which famed boxer?

2. Mencken sees that too often any discussion of suicide is rooted in what incorrect notion?

3. Where did Mencken meet Sister Aimee?

4. Why might "reflective and skeptical men" refrain from suicide?

5. What is the problem with trying to punishment a government for not working well?

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