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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. Why might "reflective and skeptical men" refrain from suicide?
(a) For the great women in life.
(b) For the sense of humor in life.
(c) For the thrill of physical activity.
(d) For the good food in life.

2. Mencken reports on a boxing with which famed boxer?
(a) Gunboat Smith.
(b) Fireman Jim Flynn.
(c) Gene Tunney.
(d) Jack Dempsey.

3. Which politician does Mencken refer to as "a good man in a bad trade"?
(a) Grover Cleveland.
(b) William Jennings Bryan.
(c) George Washington.
(d) Abraham Lincoln.

4. What is Mencken's opinion about the variety of political systems?
(a) Different political systems accomplish vastly different things.
(b) Dictatorship is preferable to oligarchy.
(c) All governments accomplish the same thing and there are very little differences.
(d) Aristocracy is by far the worst form of government.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Mencken describe Oliver Wendell Holmes?

2. Who derives several advantages from marriage?

3. What does the "romantic" type of person inevitably do?

4. What does Mencken NOT believe about the possibility for morality to change over time?

5. What kind of sense of right and wrong do children have?

(see the answer key)

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