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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 13, Statesmen, Chapter 14, American Immortals.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. What was the goal of early democratists?
(a) Definitions of concepts like truth and beauty.
(b) Concrete material gains.
(c) The overthrow of the wealthy.
(d) Philosophical frameworks to support democracy.

4. Per Chapter 2, what kind of person has Mencken never met?
(a) A quack with a conscience.
(b) A moral man that was honorable.
(c) An altruist who actually did good for anybody.
(d) A metaphysician who was intellectually curious.

5. What is Mencken's belief about morality?
(a) Morality is reserved only for the aristocracy.
(b) Morality is necessary.
(c) Morality is a made-up concept that doesn't exist.
(d) Morality is unnecessary.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Mencken describe President Coolidge?

2. Privately, politicians are what kind of people?

3. What is the chief problem with political theorists?

4. What is Mencken's belief about crime?

5. What period in history does Mencken refer to as "New Deal No. 1"?

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