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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through 5-9.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In which city did Mencken grow up?
(a) Washington, D.C.
(b) Cincinnati.
(c) Baltimore.
(d) Pittsburgh.

2. According to "Text for Newspaper Days," what is modern journalism missing?
(a) Proper fact checking.
(b) Proper attention to art and art history.
(c) A carefree nature.
(d) Multiple points of view.

3. In "The Baltimore of the Eighties," why does Mencken's mother lament about a trip to the market?
(a) A pickpocket had stolen her purse.
(b) The vendors had started charging for roe.
(c) The price of crabs had doubled.
(d) Mencken had stolen some penny candy.

4. In "Recollections of Notable Cops," why does Mencken find the idea of a police academy remarkable?
(a) Mencken regards policemen as corrupt, vicious brutes.
(b) Academies usually teach useless skills; police academies teach useful skills.
(c) Mencken states that police academies are contrary to the ideals of democracy.
(d) Cops in Mencken's younger days were not educated.

5. According to the editor, why were the 1930s Mencken's "downfall"?
(a) The hardships in the country changed popular sentiment.
(b) President FDR waged a battle of personal attacks against Mencken.
(c) Mencken spent most of the decade in Europe.
(d) Mencken's severe illness limited his output.

Short Answer Questions

1. What was the name of H. L. Mencken's brother?

2. What was the "last straw" that forced Mencken to quit the organization in #16?

3. Charlie the policeman was charged with which task, in "Recollections of Notable Cops"?

4. In "Gore in the Caribees," what was Mencken's perspective on the revolution in Cuba?

5. How was Theodore Dreiser like Joseph Conrad, according to Mencken?

(see the answer key)

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