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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through 40-44.
Multiple Choice Questions
1. What, according to Mencken, is "The Incomparable Buzz-Saw"?
(a) The horrible smells of Baltimore in the 1880s.
(b) A great work of art.
(c) The allure of a woman.
(d) War.
2. Which of the following was NOT an attribute of an artist, as Mencken describes in "The Artist"?
(a) The artist is patriotic.
(b) The artist is more easily wounded.
(c) The artist is more sensitive to his environment than normal people.
(d) The artist turns against his country and countrymen.
3. In "The Hills of Zion," why did a woman warn against the reading of books?
(a) She believed that books are full of snakes and corn cobs.
(b) Only a congregation's preacher should take on the responsibility of reading.
(c) Reading would require too much effort.
(d) She asked, What knowledge could exist outside of the Bible?
4. What does Mencken make synonymous with democracy in "A Blind Spot"?
(a) Agnosticism.
(b) Totalitarianism.
(c) Hedonism.
(d) Puritanism.
5. Which was NOT a reason Mencken used in his assessment that houses are ugly in "The Libido for the Ugly"?
(a) The houses were structurally misshapen.
(b) The houses were painted yellow.
(c) The houses had awkward, skinny chimneys.
(d) The houses were shabby and dilapidated.
Short Answer Questions
1. What theoretical scenario did Mencken pose in "The Calamity of Appomattox"?
2. What city was featured in "The Libido for the Ugly"?
3. What criticism did Dr. William Bayard Hale have for Woodrow Wilson?
4. What was the source of Oliver Wendell Holmes' allure?
5. According to Mencken, how did members of the lower class respond to Wilson?
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