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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through 10-14.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What was "The Art Eternal" according to Mencken?
(a) Prostitution.
(b) Portrait painting.
(c) Lying.
(d) Literature.

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

3. According to Mencken, what was Christianity's history with lying?
(a) Lying is not expressly forbidden, and is oftentimes even encouraged.
(b) Every sermon uttered by a priest is a lie.
(c) Lying is a great sin before God.
(d) One must lie to oneself in order to adhere to religious beliefs.

4. Charlie the policeman was charged with which task, in "Recollections of Notable Cops"?
(a) Recruiting craftsmen to refurbish the jail.
(b) Finding and arresting at least a dozen drunkards every shift.
(c) Organizing the annual policeman's ball.
(d) Investigating a serial pursesnatcher.

5. What was Mencken's nickname for Chesapeake Bay?
(a) The protein factory.
(b) The big blue.
(c) Crab central.
(d) Home of the yummy lobsters.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did Gene the magistrate do with respect to an old man in his court accused of wife beating?

2. Which boat captain helped Mencken while in Cuba?

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

4. Which is one of the stated reasons the editor put the volume together?

5. Why was Theodore Dreiser compared to Franz Schubert by Mencken?

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