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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. In Chapter 7, Mencken notes that there are too few books written about what subject?
(a) Women.
(b) Taxes.
(c) Death.
(d) True crime.

2. What is the subject of Chapter 7?
(a) Classical composers.
(b) Death.
(c) Quackery.
(d) Taxes.

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

4. What "call" does Mencken make to America's poets in Chapter 7?
(a) He wishes them to rewrite Ode to a Grecian Urn.
(b) He wishes them to burn all of their poems and drown themselves.
(c) He wishes them to speak upon the beauty of the female figure.
(d) He wishes them to write a funeral service for the damned.

5. Privately, politicians are what kind of people?
(a) Exceedingly eccentric.
(b) Lying wretches.
(c) Charming individuals.
(d) Criminals.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is "one of the most valuable human possessions" according to Mencken in Chapter 16?

2. What is the problem with trying to punishment a government for not working well?

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

4. Sister Aimee was an evangelist in what branch of Christian religion?

5. What quality makes for the best literary critic, according to Chapter 24?

(see the answer key)

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