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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Which decade, according to the author, was Mencken at his best?
(a) The 1910s.
(b) The 1920s.
(c) The 1930s.
(d) The 1940s.

3. What organization did Mencken's father force him to join at age fourteen?
(a) The Baptist Church.
(b) Y.M.C.A.
(c) The Boy Scouts of America.
(d) The Junior Achievement League.

4. What was Alistair Cooke's relationship to H. L. Mencken?
(a) A political enemy.
(b) A poet whom Mencken greatly admires.
(c) A journalist and friend.
(d) A childhood acquaintance.

5. What criticism did Mencken have for the effect of the Emancipation Proclamation?
(a) It only freed specific slaves, and not all slaves.
(b) It freed slaves all at once, when it should have done it in a gradual way.
(c) It directly led to the Battle of Shiloh.
(d) It freed all slaves, when to preserve peace it should have freed only some.

Short Answer Questions

1. What human flaw does democracy depend upon, according to Mencken?

2. What did Mencken think about Lincoln's issuing of the Emancipation Proclamation?

3. What was Mencken's criticism for Lincoln's Gettysburg Address?

4. Which was described as Mencken's earliest memory?

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

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