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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through 35-39.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What was Mencken's phrase for religious fundamentalism?
(a) "That Old-Time Religion."
(b) "The Shepherd's Porridge."
(c) "The Fluff of the Flock."
(d) "Ye Olde Honest Truth."

2. Which of the following describes an Anglo-Saxon soldier, according to Mencken?
(a) A remarkable physical constitution.
(b) A strong sense of tactics as well as strategy.
(c) A cowardice and ready willingness to desert.
(d) A tendency to be able to bore the enemy to death with a long speech.

3. According to Mencken, what kind of books did Theodore Dreiser produce?
(a) Books more important as museum pieces than texts that should be read.
(b) Weighty, substantial tomes that one must concentrate on for a long time.
(c) Breezy, summer-day reading.
(d) Wheezing, moralizing diatribes.

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

5. Which was NOT a source of loud noise in the Baltimore of the 1880s, according to Mencken?
(a) Penny candy vendors hawking their candy.
(b) Iron tires hitting hard cobblestone streets.
(c) Children singing and yelling in the streets.
(d) Barking dogs.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What famous speech did Ralph Waldo Emerson deliver in 1837?

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

4. What was the art discussed in "The Comedian"?

5. What criticism did Dr. William Bayard Hale have for Woodrow Wilson?

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