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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through 19-23.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Mencken provided what colorful phrase to describe a woman's body?
(a) A slap-happy seal.
(b) An hourglass of horrors.
(c) A star-spangled mess.
(d) A drunken dollar-mark.

2. According to Mencken, how did members of the lower class respond to Wilson?
(a) They were attracted to his lofty rhetoric.
(b) They "clapped like fools" at a recent speech.
(c) They threw rotten vegetables at him at the convention.
(d) They responded to his lower class domestic policies.

3. What famous speech did Ralph Waldo Emerson deliver in 1837?
(a) The Merits of Monogamy.
(b) The Awfulness of War.
(c) The Pride of European Intellectualism.
(d) The American Scholar.

4. How was Theodore Dreiser like Joseph Conrad, according to Mencken?
(a) Both men were inherently optimistic.
(b) Both men shared an innate pessimism.
(c) They both had a love of pirate adventures and the sea life.
(d) They both seemed to hate women.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What aspect of man-woman relationships are the movies incorrect about, according to Mencken?

2. Who presided over the Republican Convention of 1920?

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

4. According to Mencken, what kind of books did Theodore Dreiser produce?

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

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