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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through 5-9.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Which boat captain helped Mencken while in Cuba?
(a) Ignacio.
(b) Menocal.
(c) Demetrio.
(d) Leonhard.

2. Which is one of the stated reasons the editor put the volume together?
(a) To fight charges that Mencken was racist.
(b) To sell books for profit.
(c) To introduce the works of H. L. Mencken to a new generation.
(d) To expose the corrupt policies of Franklin Delano Roosevelt.

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

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

5. What part of Mencken's work is NOT included in the volume?
(a) Mencken's political discourse of the 1920s.
(b) Mencken's esoteric views on art and art history.
(c) Mencken's nostalgic musings on Baltimore.
(d) Mencken's work on language and grammar.

Short Answer Questions

1. What was the name of H. L. Mencken's brother?

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

3. What moral choice faced Mencken and a cop on New Year's Day, in "Recollections of Notable Cops"?

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

5. According to the editor, why were the 1930s Mencken's "downfall"?

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