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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. Which is NOT one of the qualities Mencken ascribes to William Jennings Bryan?
(a) Insanity.
(b) Charlatanism.
(c) Preference to keep in the company of intellectuals.
(d) Lack of dignity.

2. What aspect of President Grant does Mencken admire?
(a) His oratorical prowess.
(b) His hard-living, genuine lifestyle.
(c) His military prowess.
(d) His reputation for a clean, corruption-free administration.

3. What is the relationship between Anglo-Saxons and civilization?
(a) Anglo-Saxons are the least civilized of all white people.
(b) Anglo-Saxons are the most civilized of all white people.
(c) Anglo-Saxons choose to live outside civilization because they are morally superior.
(d) Anglo-Saxons created civilization, and are its last bastion of hope.

4. Before democracy came to be, what did people believe this system of government to be?
(a) A heavenly form of government.
(b) A wretched form of government that should not come to pass.
(c) They believed democracy was just another form of dictatorship.
(d) It was such a foreign concept, no one could really imagine it.

5. How does Mencken characterize a woman's level of civility?
(a) Women are relatively uncivilized.
(b) Women have created their own civilization quite distinct from men.
(c) Women are much more civilized than men.
(d) Women do not submit to civilization and must be coerced.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What is the fundamental flaw of the democratic style of government?

3. What does democracy ruin, according to Mencken?

4. What "call" does Mencken make to America's poets in Chapter 7?

5. What or who rules the American South?

(see the answer key)

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