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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through 29-33.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What one thing did Mencken feel was useful from the contributions of Sigmund Freud?
(a) The notion that lying stemmed from an unconscious place.
(b) The notion that people could be easily hypnotized.
(c) The notion that "mother issues" were deeply-seated.
(d) The notion that dreams could reveal aspects of our everyday lives.

2. Which is NOT one of the reasons winters were difficult in 1880s Baltimore?
(a) Water pipes could burst.
(b) The cold was severe, and furnaces did not help much.
(c) Cellars could flood.
(d) Snow caused many roofs to cave in.

3. What did Mencken wonder about Henry Cabot Lodge?
(a) Why he thought he was so superior to everyone.
(b) Why he did not pick a more noble profession.
(c) Why he did not run for president.
(d) Why he felt he must belittle everyone around him.

4. What was Mencken's phrase for religious fundamentalism?
(a) "The Fluff of the Flock."
(b) "Ye Olde Honest Truth."
(c) "That Old-Time Religion."
(d) "The Shepherd's Porridge."

5. In "Gore in the Caribees," what was Mencken's perspective on the revolution in Cuba?
(a) Mencken thought the event is not newsworthy, and only reluctantly does he travel to cover it.
(b) Mencken refused to cover the event, and is fired by his newspaper.
(c) Mencken thought it is newsworthy, and he asks to cover it.
(d) Mencken was fervently pro-Cuba, and travels to the country to engage in propaganda.

Short Answer Questions

1. What was Theodore Dreiser's national and ethnic background?

2. According to "The Incomparable Buzz-Saw," what is a woman's only power?

3. According to Mencken, how did members of the lower class respond to Wilson?

4. What, according to Mencken, is "The Incomparable Buzz-Saw"?

5. What human flaw does democracy depend upon, according to Mencken?

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