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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. How has Mencken organized his book?
(a) By length.
(b) By date.
(c) By author.
(d) By subject.

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

3. What does Mencken believe is the proper focus of psychology?
(a) The study of mob mentality.
(b) The origins of lying.
(c) The study of physical deformity (such as injury) on the mind.
(d) The study of psychological differences between people from various trades or types.

4. At what event did Mencken first personally encounter William Jennings Bryan?
(a) Bryan's congressional trial for corruption.
(b) The Scopes Monkey trial.
(c) The funeral of Grover Cleveland.
(d) The 1912 Democratic National Convention.

5. What do men become once they accumulate wealth?
(a) Stupider.
(b) Nicer.
(c) More amorous.
(d) Stingier.

Short Answer Questions

1. What aspect of human nature fuels the democratic system of government?

2. For Mencken, what is the nature of the range of the central psychological spectrum upon which all humans reside?

3. What word might Mencken use to characterize Mary Baker G. Eddy?

4. Mencken begins Chapter 25 with a philosophical discussion of what phenomenon?

5. Mencken reports on a boxing with which famed boxer?

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