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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In what way did Mencken mock General John Pershing?
(a) Mencken made fun of a recent photograph of Pershing wrapped in an American flag.
(b) Mencken felt the vast amount of medals pinned to Pershing's uniform makes the man look ridiculous.
(c) Mencken brought to light the existence of Pershing's mistress.
(d) Mencken mocked Pershing for a recent bumbling speech.

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

3. Why do "handsome men" deserve suspicion?
(a) They are terrible conversationalists.
(b) They are "ugly" inside.
(c) The human body is inherently ugly.
(d) They are always self-serving and vain.

4. Mencken provided what colorful phrase to describe a woman's body?
(a) A star-spangled mess.
(b) An hourglass of horrors.
(c) A slap-happy seal.
(d) A drunken dollar-mark.

5. What did Mencken satirize in "Quid Est Veritas"?
(a) Organized religion.
(b) Those who insisted Latin was not a dead language.
(c) Aristocrats.
(d) Country doctors.

Short Answer Questions

1. What do saints have in common with scientists?

2. What was the source of Oliver Wendell Holmes' allure?

3. Why shouldn't men trust other men?

4. Which was one of Mencken's criticisms for Woodrow Wilson?

5. Which was NOT a reason Mencken used in his assessment that houses are ugly in "The Libido for the Ugly"?

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