A Mencken Chrestomathy Quiz | Four Week Quiz B

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A Mencken Chrestomathy Quiz | Four Week Quiz B

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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 25, Literature, Chapter 26, Literati.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What kind of men does a democracy produce?
(a) Depressing men full of nostalgia.
(b) Energetic men with too much time on their hands.
(c) Stupid men who can barely master the multiplication tables.
(d) Noble, confident men who do not envy others.

3. Who derives several advantages from marriage?
(a) Women only.
(b) Men and women equally.
(c) Men only.
(d) Only the state.

4. What is the BEST term to use for Mencken's characterization of American millionaires?
(a) Idiots.
(b) Saints.
(c) Aristocrats.
(d) Exciting.

5. Who does Mencken call "the national ideal of a literary character"?
(a) Ambrose Bierce.
(b) Joseph Conrad.
(c) Ring Lardner.
(d) William Dean Howells.

Short Answer Questions

1. What kind of people are most often forgotten by historical records, per Chapter 12?

2. What was the goal of early democratists?

3. What is the contemporary invention that Mencken likes most?

4. What unusual stance does Mencken take in regards to disease?

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

(see the answer key)

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