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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 was the most damning effect of the Civil War, in regard to the South?
(a) It created the Southern aristocracy.
(b) It introduced technology into an innocent and primitive society.
(c) It replaced religious values with secular ones.
(d) It destroyed the Southern aristocracy.

2. Mencken sees authors as divided into which two classes?
(a) Dramatic and Comedic.
(b) English and Continental.
(c) Sly and Overt.
(d) American and Foreign.

3. What does Mencken believe about the concept of evil?
(a) Evil is the reason why children are born.
(b) Evil is just another word for good; it's all relative.
(c) Evil is a made-up term, and does not really exist.
(d) Evil is real, and exists all around us.

4. Who does Mencken call the most romantic American author of the nineteenth century?
(a) Henry James.
(b) Mark Twain.
(c) Stephen Crane.
(d) William Dean Howells.

5. Who was the father of the American short story?
(a) Ralph Waldo Emerson.
(b) Hamlin Garland.
(c) Theodore Dreiser.
(d) Edgar Allan Poe.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who did the Black Plague mostly kill off, according to Mencken?

2. What does the "romantic" type of person inevitably do?

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

4. What was Mencken's opinion of New Deal programs?

5. Mencken compares Theodore Roosevelt's political ideas to which other politician's?

(see the answer key)

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