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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through 24-28.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Which was one of Mencken's criticisms for Woodrow Wilson?
(a) He was stuffy and puritanical.
(b) He had the gall to pardon Eugene Debs.
(c) He had "never looked a common man in the eye."
(d) He took the presidential office by voter fraud and corruption.

3. According to Mencken, what was the Union fighting for in the Civil War?
(a) Freedom.
(b) Against the notion of self-determinism.
(c) Self-governance.
(d) Profit.

4. Which historical figure did Mencken ridicule by stating he was known as a "plaster saint"?
(a) George Washington.
(b) Napoleon Bonaparte.
(c) Abraham Lincoln.
(d) Theodore Dreiser.

5. What did Mencken feel about "American thinking"?
(a) It is bold and visionary.
(b) It is timid and superficial.
(c) It is full of awesome promise.
(d) It is cautious, yet optimistic.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why shouldn't men trust other men?

2. Who was Mencken with at a Bach concert in Pennsylvania when he decided to get some liquor?

3. How was Mencken able to get a taxi driver to drive him to a speakeasy in Pennsylvania?

4. Which of the following describes an Anglo-Saxon soldier, according to Mencken?

5. According to "The Skeptic," what do women always bear?

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