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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 29, Buffooneries, Chapter 30, Sententiae, Chapter 31, Appendix.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Mencken compares Theodore Roosevelt's political ideas to which other politician's?
(a) The United State's William Jennings Bryan.
(b) England's Queen.
(c) Germany's Kaiser.
(d) A Japanese feudal lord.

2. What is Mencken's opinion of the American South?
(a) He loathes it and believes it to be a crude and uncultured place.
(b) He thinks it is a spiritually enlightened place.
(c) He thinks highly of it because of its emphasis on grassroots values.
(d) He believes that southerners are intellectually superior to northerners, but rarely show it.

3. Mencken sees that too often any discussion of suicide is rooted in what incorrect notion?
(a) Death is painless.
(b) The family would suffer in a suicide.
(c) Death is painful.
(d) Killing oneself is an expensive proposition.

4. What kind of sense of right and wrong do children have?
(a) Children are born with a sense of right and wrong, which is then corrupted by society.
(b) Children are born without a sense of right and wrong, and society imposes this sense upon them.
(c) Children are born without a sense of right and wrong, but they develop it without society's interference.
(d) Children are born with a sense of right and wrong, and they carry this into adulthood.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the second-worst job in the world, according to Chapter 17?

2. What kind of test does Mencken believe teachers should have to pass prior to teaching?

3. What was Mencken's opinion of New Deal programs?

4. In a story in Chapter 29, what is Yen Li-Shen's occupation?

5. What is the relationship between Anglo-Saxons and civilization?

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