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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. What one thing did Mencken feel was useful from the contributions of Sigmund Freud?
(a) The notion that dreams could reveal aspects of our everyday lives.
(b) The notion that people could be easily hypnotized.
(c) The notion that lying stemmed from an unconscious place.
(d) The notion that "mother issues" were deeply-seated.

4. What dominated Puritanism, according to Mencken in "The National Letters"?
(a) The simple necessities of food, clothing, and shelter.
(b) Fear, and the suspicion of art.
(c) Free-thinking men of purpose.
(d) Religious tomfoolery.

5. What moral choice faced Mencken and a cop on New Year's Day, in "Recollections of Notable Cops"?
(a) A dead man was found with a large sum of money in his pocket.
(b) A man clearly beat his wife, but could not be technically arrested.
(c) They learned about a corrupt policeman, and had to decide whether to turn the man in.
(d) A prostitute bribed the policeman.

Short Answer Questions

1. What was Mencken's phrase for religious fundamentalism?

2. What was the subject of Walt Whitman's "Democratic Vistas"?

3. What was the nature of the Prince of Wales story Mencken tells in "The Art Eternal"?

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

5. What human flaw does democracy depend upon, according to Mencken?

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