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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 "The Incomparable Buzz-Saw," what is a woman's only power?
(a) The power to torture a man through love.
(b) The power of a house's pursestrings.
(c) The power to ruin a man's life with divorce.
(d) The power over her children.

2. Who was Mencken with at a Bach concert in Pennsylvania when he decided to get some liquor?
(a) Gene the magistrate.
(b) Alfred Knopf.
(c) Henry Cabot Lodge.
(d) Woodrow Wilson.

3. What was the "last straw" that forced Mencken to quit the organization in #16?
(a) An evangelical teen in the reading room.
(b) The fact that the running track was rectangular.
(c) The relentless shouting of his gym teacher.
(d) A painful accident with the horizontal bar.

4. In "Valentino," what did the press find in a men's bathroom that caused them to mock Valentino and his "Latin Lover" image?
(a) A bar of lavender-scented soap-on-a-rope.
(b) Women's perfume.
(c) Underwear with a hole in it.
(d) Pink talcum-powder.

5. How did Mencken describe the music of Chopin?
(a) A dozen wind chimes in a hurricane."
(b) "Silver macaroni, exquisitely tangled."
(c) "Two embalmers at work upon a minor poet."
(d) "Genesis I, I"

Short Answer Questions

1. In "Recollections of Notable Cops," why does Mencken find the idea of a police academy remarkable?

2. Why did Mencken disagree with contemporary assessments of Abraham Lincoln?

3. Why did Mencken call democracy a "self-limiting disease"?

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

5. In "Star-Spangled Man," Mencken argued that who, besides soldiers, should get medals?

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