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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

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

4. Why did Mencken disagree with contemporary assessments of Abraham Lincoln?
(a) Mencken believed a much broader conspiracy was in place in regards to Lincoln's assassination.
(b) Critics praised him as a hero and don't question some dubious sections of his biography.
(c) Critics maligned Lincoln for his handling of the Civil War, and Mencken thinks he did a fine job.
(d) Abraham Lincoln did not get nearly enough credit for freeing the slaves, according to Mencken.

5. In "Gore in the Caribees," what was Mencken's perspective on the revolution in Cuba?
(a) Mencken was fervently pro-Cuba, and travels to the country to engage in propaganda.
(b) Mencken thought the event is not newsworthy, and only reluctantly does he travel to cover it.
(c) Mencken refused to cover the event, and is fired by his newspaper.
(d) Mencken thought it is newsworthy, and he asks to cover it.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What did Gene the magistrate do with respect to an old man in his court accused of wife beating?

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

4. According to Mencken, how did members of the lower class respond to Wilson?

5. Who is the editor of this volume?

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