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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 does the "romantic" type of person inevitably do?
(a) Befriends everyone they meet.
(b) Betrays.
(c) Makes light of serious situations.
(d) Exaggerates.

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

3. What is Mencken's belief about crime?
(a) Crime is primarily a legal invention.
(b) Crime is primarily a product of capitalist society.
(c) Crime is impossible in aristocratic circles.
(d) Crime is primarily a social invention.

4. What does the "metaphysical" type of person inevitably do?
(a) Demands to know what you mean, even when it is obvious.
(b) Becomes paralyzed with fear over the enormity of the universe.
(c) Begs for spare change.
(d) Tips their hat for no reason.

5. What is the "average man's" opinion of government?
(a) The government is made up of people like him.
(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 deceitful and contrary to his interests.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which is NOT one of the qualities of Anglo-Saxons Mencken points to in Chapter 10?

2. What event does Mencken believe led to the European Renaissance?

3. Privately, politicians are what kind of people?

4. How does Mencken describe President Coolidge?

5. Who is the "ideal citizen of Christendom" according to Chapter 3?

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