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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What did Mencken satirize in "Quid Est Veritas"?
(a) Those who insisted Latin was not a dead language.
(b) Organized religion.
(c) Country doctors.
(d) Aristocrats.

3. In "Star-Spangled Man," Mencken argued that who, besides soldiers, should get medals?
(a) Dock workers and tugboat captains.
(b) Writers and intellectuals.
(c) Anyone hostile to the United States.
(d) Murderers, thieves, and rapists.

4. Who presided over the Republican Convention of 1920?
(a) Franklin Pierce.
(b) Grover Garfield.
(c) William Jennings Bryan.
(d) Henry Cabot Lodge.

5. What stance can Mencken be said to have taken in "Star-Spangled Man"?
(a) Anti-war.
(b) Anti-establishment.
(c) Pro-life.
(d) Pro-gun.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is the editor of this volume?

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

3. Why shouldn't men trust other men?

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

5. In "The Baltimore of the Eighties," why does Mencken's mother lament about a trip to the market?

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