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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What profession should the truth-teller NOT aspire to, according to Mencken?
(a) Owner of a large company.
(b) The President of the United States.
(c) A jewelry maker.
(d) A bartender.

2. What was Mencken's nickname for Chesapeake Bay?
(a) Home of the yummy lobsters.
(b) The protein factory.
(c) Crab central.
(d) The big blue.

3. Who was the president of Cuba when Mencken visited the country in "Gore in the Caribees"?
(a) Leonhard.
(b) Menocal.
(c) Teodorio.
(d) Jose Miguel.

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

5. What, according to Mencken, is "The Incomparable Buzz-Saw"?
(a) War.
(b) A great work of art.
(c) The allure of a woman.
(d) The horrible smells of Baltimore in the 1880s.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why do "handsome men" deserve suspicion?

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

3. Charlie the policeman was charged with which task, in "Recollections of Notable Cops"?

4. What was Alistair Cooke's relationship to H. L. Mencken?

5. What do saints have in common with scientists?

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