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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 17, Pedagogy, Chapter 18, Psychology.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is NOT one of the qualities of being a teacher according to Mencken?
(a) Being able to breeze through lessons and cut corners.
(b) Being underpaid.
(c) Having no respect.
(d) Wearing oneself out to achieve the impossible.

2. What does Mencken believe is the proper focus of psychology?
(a) The origins of lying.
(b) The study of psychological differences between people from various trades or types.
(c) The study of physical deformity (such as injury) on the mind.
(d) The study of mob mentality.

3. What is the subject of Chapter 7?
(a) Classical composers.
(b) Quackery.
(c) Death.
(d) Taxes.

4. What central critique does Mencken have for teachers of his day?
(a) They are overpaid and underworked.
(b) They are given entirely too much respect in society.
(c) They simply teach, and leave it to students to figure out the lesson.
(d) They too often making learning an automatic process.

5. How does Mencken describe Oliver Wendell Holmes?
(a) He was a brilliant reasoner.
(b) He was a tool of conservative fuddy-duddies.
(c) He was a tool of liberal elites.
(d) He was a completely inept United States Senator.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which is NOT one of the qualities of Anglo-Saxons Mencken points to in Chapter 10?

2. What aspect of Lincoln's historical persona does Mencken doubt, or at least question?

3. In Chapter 7, Mencken notes that there are too few books written about what subject?

4. What kind of test does Mencken believe teachers should have to pass prior to teaching?

5. What is the second-worst job in the world, according to Chapter 17?

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