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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.
Multiple Choice Questions
1. Which classical composer could not "write for the mob"?
(a) Strauss.
(b) Brahms.
(c) Schubert.
(d) Beethoven.
2. What was Roosevelt's team of political advisers popularly called?
(a) The Brain Trust.
(b) Roosevelt's Riveters.
(c) The Washington Eggheads.
(d) The Brooklyn Thirteen.
3. What point does Mencken make by bringing up an 84-year-old man he knew in Chapter 21?
(a) A man's innate constitution may determine longevity more than illness.
(b) Age is nothing but a number.
(c) Illness makes a person stronger.
(d) The older a person gets, the crankier they get.
4. What device does Mencken call a "boon to bores"?
(a) Elevator.
(b) Telephone.
(c) Thermostat.
(d) Radio.
5. Who wrote Sextet for Strings, Opus 18, which Mencken greatly praises?
(a) Strauss.
(b) Wagner.
(c) Brahms.
(d) Beethoven.
Short Answer Questions
1. What is the usual relationship between an artist and his countrymen?
2. What do men become once they accumulate wealth?
3. In "Utopian Flights," how does Mencken believe legislators should be chosen?
4. Mencken has what criticism for "new poets"?
5. What is the BEST term to use for Mencken's characterization of American millionaires?
Short Essay Questions
1. Summarize Mencken's views on Mark Twain.
2. Why does Mencken make mention of Sister Aimee? Who was Sister Aimee, and what was Mencken's opinion of her?
3. In Chapter 24, Mencken discusses art and literary criticism. How do critics influence artists? And what makes for the best kind of literary critics?
4. What insight does Mencken provide about physical disease/illness?
5. What opinion does Mencken render about a) Mary Baker G. Eddy and Christian Science, and b) the doctrine of theosophy?
6. Summarize Mencken's views on William Dean Howells.
7. What does Mencken feel is the contemporary state of psychology? How does he feel about Freudianism?
8. What should poetry ideally be, according to Mencken? What makes for a good poem? And how does taste in poetry reflect upon a person's qualities?
9. Summarize Mencken's views on inspiration, as recounted in Chapter 25.
10. Why does Mencken criticize the American Medical Association? What is his opinion of doctors as a professional class?
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