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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What criticism did Dr. William Bayard Hale have for Woodrow Wilson?
(a) Wilson was more interested in tea parties and social functions than policy discussions.
(b) Wilson had the gall to pardon Eugene Debs.
(c) As an orator, Wilson was dull, and focuses too much on foreign policy.
(d) His rhetoric was lofty, but ultimately empty of substance.

2. Which of the following is NOT something that exists as a result of the Anglo-Saxon race, according to Mencken?
(a) A tradition of cultural superiority.
(b) Fundamentalism.
(c) The Ku Klux Klan.
(d) The slaughter of American Indians.

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What organization did Mencken's father force him to join at age fourteen?

2. Why do "handsome men" deserve suspicion?

3. Why did Mencken curse those who translated the Bible into English?

4. Who were the two attorneys in the Scopes monkey trial?

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

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