The Vintage Mencken Quiz | Eight Week Quiz F

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The Vintage Mencken Quiz | Eight Week Quiz F

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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through 35-39.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What did Mencken conclude in his examination of rulings in "Mr. Justice Holmes"?
(a) Justice Holmes rendered fantastically bizarre rulings, and should be impeached.
(b) Mencken slyly suggests Holmes should tuck chickens under his arms because of his chicken-like cowardice.
(c) Justice Holmes ruled too often for rabble-rousers, and not often enough for the aristocracy.
(d) Justice Holmes ruled too often in favor of the powers that be, rather than the people.

2. Which of the following is a trait of the Anglo-Saxon race, per "The Anglo-Saxon"?
(a) Bravery.
(b) Cultural superiority.
(c) Intelligence.
(d) Weak will.

3. Which was NOT a challenge to the schoolboy Mencken mentioned in "Travail"?
(a) They were forced to be babysat against their will.
(b) They were trying to learn things that are above their intellectual ability.
(c) They were taught by teachers they don't respect.
(d) They were taught lessons no one has an interest in.

4. What happened when Mencken sent a junior reporter to get him liquor during the Republican National Convention?
(a) The reporter stole liquor from an aristocrat's secret stash.
(b) The junior reporter was arrested and spends the night in jail.
(c) The convention organizers caught Mencken and toss him out.
(d) The reporter encountered drunken goons, and failed to get any liquor.

5. What was the subject of "A Good Man Gone Wrong"?
(a) A man who robbed in order to feed his family.
(b) A man who was jailed for protesting World War I.
(c) A man who heckled an animal at the zoo, and got arrested.
(d) A man who murdered at the request of another man's wife.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Mencken make synonymous with democracy in "A Blind Spot"?

2. Which was NOT a source of terrible smell in the Baltimore of the 1880s, according to Mencken?

3. Which of the following was NOT a name applied to William Jennings Bryan by Mencken?

4. What was unique to the American psyche according to Mencken in "Libido for the Ugly"?

5. How did Mencken describe the music of Chopin?

(see the answer key)

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