The Vintage Mencken | Multiple Choice Test Questions

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Multiple Choice - Introduction, 1-4

1. Who is the editor of this volume?
a) H. L. Mencken.
b) William Jennings Bryan.
c) Alistair Cooke.
d) Alfred Knopf.

2. Which is one of the stated reasons the editor put the volume together?
a) To sell books for profit.
b) To expose the corrupt policies of Franklin Delano Roosevelt.
c) To introduce the works of H. L. Mencken to a new generation.
d) To fight charges that Mencken was racist.

3. Which decade, according to the author, was Mencken at his best?
a) The 1910s.
b) The 1930s.
c) The 1920s.
d) The 1940s.

4. Which book...
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