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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through 29-33.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. According to Mencken, what kind of books did Theodore Dreiser produce?
(a) Books more important as museum pieces than texts that should be read.
(b) Weighty, substantial tomes that one must concentrate on for a long time.
(c) Wheezing, moralizing diatribes.
(d) Breezy, summer-day reading.

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

3. What human flaw does democracy depend upon, according to Mencken?
(a) Envy.
(b) Rage.
(c) Greed.
(d) Vanity.

4. Which of the following describes an Anglo-Saxon soldier, according to Mencken?
(a) A strong sense of tactics as well as strategy.
(b) A tendency to be able to bore the enemy to death with a long speech.
(c) A remarkable physical constitution.
(d) A cowardice and ready willingness to desert.

5. According to "Quid Est Veritas?," what kind of religion professes to know God exactly and completely?
(a) Perfect religions.
(b) Primitive religions.
(c) Admirable religions.
(d) American religions.

Short Answer Questions

1. What was the result of Mencken's attempt to trace the lineage of the Anglo-Saxon race?

2. Why was early Christianity superior to modern Christianity, per "Holy Writ"?

3. Where did the Scopes monkey trial take place?

4. What kind of presence did Henry Cabot Lodge have, according to Mencken?

5. What part of Mencken's work is NOT included in the volume?

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