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

2. What is the "average man's" opinion of government?
(a) The government is deceitful and contrary to his interests.
(b) The government is an unknown phenomenon the average man knows nothing about.
(c) The government is a source of great good.
(d) The government is made up of people like him.

3. Where did Mencken meet Sister Aimee?
(a) The offices of the Baltimore Sun.
(b) An Indian retreat.
(c) The Los Angeles Basilica.
(d) The San Diego Zoo.

4. In Chapter 15, Mencken expresses surprise that no one has violated the tomb of which man?
(a) George Washington.
(b) Charles Joseph Bonaparte.
(c) Grover Cleveland.
(d) Oliver Wendell Holmes.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What year did the New Deal programs begin?

2. Why might "reflective and skeptical men" refrain from suicide?

3. How does Mencken define government?

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

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

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