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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 19, Science, Chapter 20, Quackery.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Sister Aimee was an evangelist in what branch of Christian religion?
(a) Methodist.
(b) Scientologist.
(c) Baptist.
(d) Catholic.

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

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 do most women think of their husbands according to Mencken?
(a) Women fear and loathe their husbands.
(b) Women love and respect their husbands.
(c) Women are indifferent to their husbands and use them as mere tools.
(d) Women pity their husbands and consider them asses.

5. Why does Mencken criticize the American Medical Association?
(a) For supporting a bunch of quack science.
(b) For making it too difficult to become a doctor.
(c) For turning down his membership application.
(d) For making it too easy to become a doctor.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What is Mencken's belief about the concept of sin?

3. Mencken sees that too often any discussion of suicide is rooted in what incorrect notion?

4. Which is NOT one of the qualities Mencken ascribes to William Jennings Bryan?

5. How does Mencken define government?

(see the answer key)

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