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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Which was one of Mencken's criticisms for Woodrow Wilson?
(a) He had the gall to pardon Eugene Debs.
(b) He was stuffy and puritanical.
(c) He took the presidential office by voter fraud and corruption.
(d) He had "never looked a common man in the eye."

2. What was the subject of the Scopes monkey trial?
(a) The kidnapping of a chimpanzee.
(b) A treasonous plot to help a Central American country.
(c) The teaching of evolution.
(d) The assault of a zoo heckler by a gorilla.

3. What did Gene the magistrate do with respect to an old man in his court accused of wife beating?
(a) Gene applauded the man for keeping his wife well-behaved.
(b) Gene threatened the man with made-up punishments to get him to reform.
(c) Gene put him in jail for two years.
(d) Gene had the court bailiff beat the man, just as he had beat his wife.

4. What was the subject of "The Noble Experiment"?
(a) Voting during World War I.
(b) Drinking during Prohibition.
(c) A scientific breakthrough Mencken reported on.
(d) The Cuban revolution.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. According to Mencken, why was Samuel Johnson unique as an artist?

2. What aspect of man-woman relationships are the movies incorrect about, according to Mencken?

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

4. What was Mencken's nickname for Chesapeake Bay?

5. How was Theodore Dreiser like Joseph Conrad, according to Mencken?

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