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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 23, Souvenirs of a Journalist, Chapter 24, Criticism.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

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

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

5. What does Mencken believe about physical punishment in education?
(a) He believes physical punishment should have a regular place in the schedule of a school day.
(b) He believes there is no place for physical punishment in school.
(c) He believes only parents should be called upon to physically discipline their children.
(d) He believes physical punishment should be an option given to teachers.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Mencken feel about the overall capacity for virtue in the human race?

2. How does Mencken react to a religious ceremony inside a basilica, as he recounts in Chapter 15?

3. What point does Mencken make in his discussion of Darwinian evolution?

4. What is Mencken's assessment of Abraham Lincoln?

5. In Chapter 15, Mencken expresses surprise that no one has violated the tomb of which man?

(see the answer key)

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