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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 name of H. L. Mencken's brother?
(a) Jesse.
(b) Charlie.
(c) Mitch.
(d) Bud.

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

3. Which was NOT a source of terrible smell in the Baltimore of the 1880s, according to Mencken?
(a) The Back Basin.
(b) Wilkins Hair Factory.
(c) The glue factory.
(d) The St. Helen's insane asylum.

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

5. What does Mencken state about the literary influence(s) of Theodore Dreiser?
(a) No one author can be pointed to as an influence.
(b) Dreiser was the product of Emile Zola.
(c) Dreiser draws upon the literary tradition of Germany.
(d) Dreiser was the product of Frank Norris.

Short Answer Questions

1. What do saints have in common with scientists?

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

3. What was "The Art Eternal" according to Mencken?

4. Which is NOT a reason Mencken gives for admiring Theodore Dreiser?

5. In "Gore in the Caribees," what was Mencken's perspective on the revolution in Cuba?

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