A Mencken Chrestomathy Quiz | One Week Quiz A

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A Mencken Chrestomathy Quiz | One Week Quiz A

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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 was Roosevelt's team of political advisers popularly called?
(a) The Brain Trust.
(b) The Brooklyn Thirteen.
(c) The Washington Eggheads.
(d) Roosevelt's Riveters.

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

3. Where did the Scopes Monkey Trial take place?
(a) Frankfurt, Kentucky.
(b) Chicago, Illinois.
(c) Mexico, Missouri.
(d) Dayton, Tennessee.

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

5. What kind of promises do politicians make?
(a) Ones they can fulfill.
(b) Ones they have no intention of fulfilling.
(c) Ones they have polled voters about.
(d) Ones they cannot deliver.

Short Answer Questions

1. What was Mencken's opinion of New Deal programs?

2. What is Mencken's central critique for socialism?

3. Which is NOT one of the negative effects Mencken mentions in regards to Prohibition?

4. What is the "average man's" opinion of government?

5. What is the chief problem with political theorists?

(see the answer key)

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