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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. Who was the attorney on the side of the prosecution in the Scopes Monkey Trial?
(a) Theodore Veblen.
(b) Clarence Darrow.
(c) William Jennings Bryan.
(d) Andrew Still.

2. What year did the New Deal programs begin?
(a) 1933.
(b) 1919.
(c) 1945.
(d) 1939.

3. 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 write a funeral service for the damned.
(c) He wishes them to burn all of their poems and drown themselves.
(d) He wishes them to speak upon the beauty of the female figure.

4. Sister Aimee was an evangelist in what branch of Christian religion?
(a) Methodist.
(b) Catholic.
(c) Baptist.
(d) Scientologist.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the chief problem with political theorists?

2. In Chapter 7, Mencken notes that there are too few books written about what subject?

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

4. In the boxing match Mencken reports on in Chapter 23, why do most want the favorite boxer to lose?

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

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