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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 is Mencken's opinion about the variety of political systems?
(a) Dictatorship is preferable to oligarchy.
(b) All governments accomplish the same thing and there are very little differences.
(c) Different political systems accomplish vastly different things.
(d) Aristocracy is by far the worst form of government.

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

3. In Chapter 15, Mencken expresses surprise that no one has violated the tomb of which man?
(a) George Washington.
(b) Charles Joseph Bonaparte.
(c) Oliver Wendell Holmes.
(d) Grover Cleveland.

4. Mencken reports on a boxing with which famed boxer?
(a) Gunboat Smith.
(b) Gene Tunney.
(c) Fireman Jim Flynn.
(d) Jack Dempsey.

5. Where did Mencken meet Sister Aimee?
(a) The San Diego Zoo.
(b) The Los Angeles Basilica.
(c) The offices of the Baltimore Sun.
(d) An Indian retreat.

Short Answer Questions

1. According to Chapter 16, which political system is responsible for the majority of civilization as we know it?

2. Who was the attorney on the side of the defense in the Scopes Monkey Trial?

3. Which president did Charles Joseph Bonaparte work for?

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

5. In the boxing match Mencken reports on in Chapter 23, why do most want the favorite boxer to lose?

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