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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through 24-28.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What do saints have in common with scientists?
(a) Both unselfishly serve mankind.
(b) Both corrupt the truth to suit their best interests.
(c) Both simply seek the truth.
(d) Both manipulate public opinion to advance their own position.

2. What human flaw does democracy depend upon, according to Mencken?
(a) Rage.
(b) Vanity.
(c) Greed.
(d) Envy.

3. Which of the following was NOT an attribute of an artist, as Mencken describes in "The Artist"?
(a) The artist is more sensitive to his environment than normal people.
(b) The artist turns against his country and countrymen.
(c) The artist is more easily wounded.
(d) The artist is patriotic.

4. Which was one of Mencken's criticisms for Woodrow Wilson?
(a) He had "never looked a common man in the eye."
(b) He took the presidential office by voter fraud and corruption.
(c) He had the gall to pardon Eugene Debs.
(d) He was stuffy and puritanical.

5. What aspect of man-woman relationships are the movies incorrect about, according to Mencken?
(a) Women always begin a romance; men are too cowardly.
(b) Men don't like to date women younger than themselves.
(c) There is no such thing as romantic love.
(d) Handsome men are not sought after by women.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does the typical man have a poor conception of beauty?

2. What famous speech did Ralph Waldo Emerson deliver in 1837?

3. According to Mencken, the intellectual tradition of Whitman and Emerson had been transferred to which man?

4. Which of the following is NOT something that exists as a result of the Anglo-Saxon race, according to Mencken?

5. What was the subject of "The Noble Experiment"?

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