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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through 40-44.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Which of the following was NOT a name applied to William Jennings Bryan by Mencken?
(a) Mountebank.
(b) Fly-catcher.
(c) Charlatan.
(d) Yellow-bellied sapsucker.

2. What was the flaw of FDR's opponent in the Democratic National Convention of 1932?
(a) He was a complete political rookie.
(b) He was ruined by a scandal involving adultery.
(c) He was too old, and he looked like a mummy next to FDR.
(d) He was blinded by his hatred for FDR.

3. Which of the following describes an Anglo-Saxon soldier, according to Mencken?
(a) A strong sense of tactics as well as strategy.
(b) A remarkable physical constitution.
(c) A tendency to be able to bore the enemy to death with a long speech.
(d) A cowardice and ready willingness to desert.

4. Which is the best style of architecture, according to Mencken?
(a) Art Nouveau.
(b) Modernism.
(c) English Eighteenth Century.
(d) Futurism.

5. What was the result of Mencken's attempt to trace the lineage of the Anglo-Saxon race?
(a) He pointed out that the race was never the same after a battle in 1066.
(b) He traced it to a tribe in Western Africa.
(c) It was too complicated, and he gave up.
(d) Mencken claimed, sarcastically, that he himself represents the apex of the race.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which was one of the architectural styles Mencken mentioned as part of the "new architecture"?

2. According to Mencken, the intellectual tradition of Whitman and Emerson had been transferred to which man?

3. What aspect of man-woman relationships are the movies incorrect about, according to Mencken?

4. What did Mencken attribute to the fall of the "good man" in "A Good Man Gone Wrong"?

5. What was Mencken's opinion of Gothic architecture?

(see the answer key)

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