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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 13, Statesmen, Chapter 14, American Immortals.
Multiple Choice Questions
1. How does Mencken describe President Coolidge?
(a) He was reserved and agnostic.
(b) He was a typical American.
(c) He was an orator of great skill and emotive power.
(d) His life was marred by continual misfortune.
2. What is Mencken's opinion of the belief that man has a soul, according to Chapter 1?
(a) The notion of a soul is simple, but still very relevant today.
(b) The notion of a soul is humanity's one bright spot.
(c) The notion of a soul has failed to result in more people acting like God.
(d) The notion of a soul has led to unprecedented successes in philosophy and elsewhere.
3. Why is the "pretty man" hated?
(a) The pretty man is almost universally also very dumb.
(b) Women care less for beauty than men do.
(c) The pretty man reminds us of all of our own faults.
(d) Women are jealous of pretty men.
4. What is Mencken's belief about crime?
(a) Crime is impossible in aristocratic circles.
(b) Crime is primarily a product of capitalist society.
(c) Crime is primarily a social invention.
(d) Crime is primarily a legal invention.
5. Mencken compares Theodore Roosevelt's political ideas to which other politician's?
(a) Germany's Kaiser.
(b) The United State's William Jennings Bryan.
(c) England's Queen.
(d) A Japanese feudal lord.
Short Answer Questions
1. In Chapter 7, Mencken notes that there are too few books written about what subject?
2. What kind of people are most often forgotten by historical records, per Chapter 12?
3. Who derives several advantages from marriage?
4. Who rules American culture, according to Chapter 10?
5. Before democracy came to be, what did people believe this system of government to be?
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