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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. What criticism did Dr. William Bayard Hale have for Woodrow Wilson?
(a) His rhetoric was lofty, but ultimately empty of substance.
(b) As an orator, Wilson was dull, and focuses too much on foreign policy.
(c) Wilson had the gall to pardon Eugene Debs.
(d) Wilson was more interested in tea parties and social functions than policy discussions.

4. What was "The Art Eternal" according to Mencken?
(a) Literature.
(b) Portrait painting.
(c) Lying.
(d) Prostitution.

5. What did Mencken wonder about Henry Cabot Lodge?
(a) Why he felt he must belittle everyone around him.
(b) Why he did not run for president.
(c) Why he did not pick a more noble profession.
(d) Why he thought he was so superior to everyone.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which of the following was true in regard to statements made by Mencken about chiropractic?

2. Which man did Mencken dub the "Star-Spangled Man"?

3. Which war was General John Pershing most famously involved in?

4. How did Gene the magistrate handle an overzealous Methodist clergyman?

5. What profession should the truth-teller NOT aspire to, according to Mencken?

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