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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. What is Man's one unique characteristic, per Chapter 1?
(a) Imagination.
(b) The ability to betray.
(c) Romantic feeling.
(d) Optimism.

2. What aspect of human nature fuels the democratic system of government?
(a) Murderous violence.
(b) Grace.
(c) Charity.
(d) Envy.

3. 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 choose to live outside civilization because they are morally superior.
(d) Anglo-Saxons are the most civilized of all white people.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the crux of Mr. Ayres' philosophical argument that Mencken criticizes?

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

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

4. Who does Mencken call the most romantic American author of the nineteenth century?

5. How has Mencken organized his book?

(see the answer key)

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