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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through 15-18.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who was the president of Cuba when Mencken visited the country in "Gore in the Caribees"?
(a) Menocal.
(b) Leonhard.
(c) Teodorio.
(d) Jose Miguel.

2. What was the subject of the first Mencken-written article that was ever published?
(a) The gold standard.
(b) A high-society party.
(c) Political discontent in Europe.
(d) A horse robbery.

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

4. Who presided over the Republican Convention of 1920?
(a) Franklin Pierce.
(b) Grover Garfield.
(c) William Jennings Bryan.
(d) Henry Cabot Lodge.

5. What moral choice faced Mencken and a cop on New Year's Day, in "Recollections of Notable Cops"?
(a) A man clearly beat his wife, but could not be technically arrested.
(b) A prostitute bribed the policeman.
(c) They learned about a corrupt policeman, and had to decide whether to turn the man in.
(d) A dead man was found with a large sum of money in his pocket.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. In "Recollections of Notable Cops," why does Mencken find the idea of a police academy remarkable?

3. Which decade, according to the author, was Mencken at his best?

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

5. How did Gene the magistrate handle an overzealous Methodist clergyman?

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