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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What quotation did Mencken borrow from Theodore Dreiser in "Cavia Cobaya"?
(a) Does the average strong, successful man confine himself to one woman?
(b) Does a woman of considerable means ever want for a man of inconsiderable means?
(c) Does a man of moderate means never aspire to great wealth?
(d) Does the temperate, invulnerable man ever give in to the sins of alcohol?

2. Why does the typical man have a poor conception of beauty?
(a) The entire world, with very few exceptions, is hideously ugly.
(b) Even mirrors are manufactured to lie about a woman's beauty.
(c) Even a man's enemy will tell him his wife is pretty.
(d) Make-up is made with a chemical that confuses the brain.

3. What aspect of old-time education did Mencken miss most in modern education?
(a) The charm of the one-room schoolhouse.
(b) The insistence on only male teachers.
(c) The tolling of the dinner triangle.
(d) Corporal punishment.

4. What must modern religions do to "escape absurdity"?
(a) They should encourage a much more relaxed church service.
(b) They must allow gay marriage.
(c) They must disband immediately.
(d) They should accept a small element of agnosticism.

5. What did Mencken satirize in "Quid Est Veritas"?
(a) Country doctors.
(b) Organized religion.
(c) Aristocrats.
(d) Those who insisted Latin was not a dead language.

Short Answer Questions

1. According to Mencken, how did members of the lower class respond to Wilson?

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

3. What aspect of man-woman relationships are the movies incorrect about, according to Mencken?

4. Which was NOT a source of terrible smell in the Baltimore of the 1880s, according to Mencken?

5. What was Theodore Dreiser's national and ethnic background?

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