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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Which war was General John Pershing most famously involved in?
(a) The War of the Roses.
(b) World War II.
(c) The Civil War.
(d) World War I.

2. Which book was Mencken's touchstone into literature?
(a) Thomas Paine's Common Sense.
(b) Mary Shelley's Frankenstein.
(c) Alexander Dumas' The Three Musketeers.
(d) Mark Twain's Huckleberry Finn.

3. What is a man's usual response to beauty?
(a) Indifference.
(b) Romantic affection.
(c) Highly-violent behavior.
(d) Lust.

4. Which of the following did NOT happen during "The Hills of Zion"?
(a) A woman warned against reading books.
(b) The preacher began to speak in tongues.
(c) A young woman went into convulsions.
(d) A preacher appeared to strangle a woman to death before he miraculously "cures" her.

5. What does Mencken make synonymous with democracy in "A Blind Spot"?
(a) Totalitarianism.
(b) Agnosticism.
(c) Hedonism.
(d) Puritanism.

Short Answer Questions

1. How would Mencken respond to the notion that William Jennings Bryan was an earnest man?

2. What cheeky nickname did Mencken give Theodore Dreiser?

3. Which of the following could NOT be used to describe Mencken's tone in "Star-Spangled Man"?

4. What might Mencken say about a writer's sense of beauty?

5. Who was the president of Cuba when Mencken visited the country in "Gore in the Caribees"?

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