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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through 15-18.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Which book was Mencken's touchstone into literature?
(a) Alexander Dumas' The Three Musketeers.
(b) Mary Shelley's Frankenstein.
(c) Thomas Paine's Common Sense.
(d) Mark Twain's Huckleberry Finn.

2. According to "The Skeptic," what do women always bear?
(a) A healthy mistrust of their husbands.
(b) The burden of caring for families.
(c) The strength of their religious convictions.
(d) A strong sense of household finances.

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

4. What was Mencken's criticism for Lincoln's Gettysburg Address?
(a) It was a slap in the face to Southern Democrats.
(b) It was more poetry than logic.
(c) It was full of racist remarks and innuendo.
(d) It was more about logistics and policy than stirring rhetoric.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. In "The National Letters," what was the cause of all the "diseases" which afflict America?

3. In "Gore in the Caribees," how was Jose Miguel captured?

4. Who presided over the Republican Convention of 1920?

5. In "Recollections of Notable Cops," why does Mencken find the idea of a police academy remarkable?

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