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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why do "handsome men" deserve suspicion?
(a) They are "ugly" inside.
(b) They are terrible conversationalists.
(c) They are always self-serving and vain.
(d) The human body is inherently ugly.

2. Where did the Scopes monkey trial take place?
(a) St. Louis, Missouri.
(b) Baltimore, Maryland.
(c) Dayton, Tennessee.
(d) Chicago, Illinois.

3. What was the subject of the first Mencken-written article that was ever published?
(a) Political discontent in Europe.
(b) The gold standard.
(c) A horse robbery.
(d) A high-society party.

4. Charlie the policeman was charged with which task, in "Recollections of Notable Cops"?
(a) Organizing the annual policeman's ball.
(b) Recruiting craftsmen to refurbish the jail.
(c) Finding and arresting at least a dozen drunkards every shift.
(d) Investigating a serial pursesnatcher.

5. How would Mencken respond to the notion that William Jennings Bryan was an earnest man?
(a) He was earnest to the public, but in private he was a swindler and schemer.
(b) He might have been earnest, but that was about his only admirable quality.
(c) He was not earnest; he was inherently two-faced.
(d) Earnest or no, he did the right thing in the Scopes monkey trial.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which was NOT one of the reasons why a Christian wouldn't man cheat on his wife, according to "The Libertine"?

2. Why was Theodore Dreiser compared to Franz Schubert by Mencken?

3. Why, according to Mencken, do virtuous people end up sinning the worst?

4. What did Mencken think about monogamy, as revealed in "Cavia Cobaya"?

5. What stance can Mencken be said to have taken in "Star-Spangled Man"?

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