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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 Roosevelt's team of political advisers popularly called?
(a) The Brooklyn Thirteen.
(b) The Brain Trust.
(c) The Washington Eggheads.
(d) Roosevelt's Riveters.

2. How would George Washington fare in today's political climate?
(a) He would be arrested for corruption.
(b) He would have no chance of winning any political office.
(c) He would be bewildered by modern methods and unable to perform his duties.
(d) He would easily be elected president.

3. What comparison does Mencken make between man and animal in Chapter 1?
(a) Many animals have superior faculties to man.
(b) Man in every way has faculties that are superior to animals.
(c) The faculties of animal and man precisely balance when taken as a whole.
(d) The only thing man cannot do that animal can is fly.

4. In Chapter 7, Mencken notes that there are too few books written about what subject?
(a) Death.
(b) True crime.
(c) Women.
(d) Taxes.

5. What or who rules the American South?
(a) A love for automobiles and technology.
(b) Baptist and Methodist "barbarism".
(c) Secular liberals.
(d) An aristocratic class.

Short Answer Questions

1. What kind of men has history been written by, to date?

2. What is Mencken's central critique for socialism?

3. What kind of test does Mencken believe teachers should have to pass prior to teaching?

4. What unusual stance does Mencken take in regards to disease?

5. What two types of poetry does Mencken believe are the only viable ones?

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