1. According to Mencken, how did members of the lower class respond to Wilson?
(a) They threw rotten vegetables at him at the convention.
(b) They were attracted to his lofty rhetoric.
(c) They responded to his lower class domestic policies.
(d) They "clapped like fools" at a recent speech.

2. What did Mencken think about monogamy, as revealed in "Cavia Cobaya"?
(a) Great men aspired to and achieved it.
(b) Functionally, monogamy was the same as polygamy, because everyone cheats.
(c) Monogamy was the laughable product of democracy.
(d) Monogamy stifled the natural urgings of a man.

3. In "The Baltimore of the Eighties," why does Mencken's mother lament about a trip to the market?
(a) The vendors had started charging for roe.
(b) The price of crabs had doubled.
(c) A pickpocket had stolen her purse.
(d) Mencken had stolen some penny candy.

4. How did Gene the magistrate handle an overzealous Methodist clergyman?
(a) Gene had policemen follow the clergyman wherever he went.
(b) Gene created trumped-up charges to render him no longer a problem.
(c) Gene ruled that religion was essential to the functioning of a democracy.
(d) Gene ruled that the clergyman was within his rights to practice in the Jewish ghetto.

5. What was NOT a feature of chiropractors, according to "Chiropractic"?
(a) They had a good deal of anatomical knowledge.
(b) They were retired baseball players or piano movers.
(c) They were quacks.
(d) They did no good, and may in fact cause harm.