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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. What famous speech did Ralph Waldo Emerson deliver in 1837?
(a) The Pride of European Intellectualism.
(b) The American Scholar.
(c) The Merits of Monogamy.
(d) The Awfulness of War.

3. How did Gene the magistrate handle an overzealous Methodist clergyman?
(a) Gene created trumped-up charges to render him no longer a problem.
(b) Gene ruled that religion was essential to the functioning of a democracy.
(c) Gene had policemen follow the clergyman wherever he went.
(d) Gene ruled that the clergyman was within his rights to practice in the Jewish ghetto.

4. What did Mencken think about monogamy, as revealed in "Cavia Cobaya"?
(a) Great men aspired to and achieved it.
(b) Monogamy stifled the natural urgings of a man.
(c) Functionally, monogamy was the same as polygamy, because everyone cheats.
(d) Monogamy was the laughable product of democracy.

5. Who was the president of Cuba when Mencken visited the country in "Gore in the Caribees"?
(a) Teodorio.
(b) Leonhard.
(c) Jose Miguel.
(d) Menocal.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who started chiropractic, according to Mencken?

2. What does Mencken call a man who resists the charms of women?

3. Which of the following was NOT an attribute of an artist, as Mencken describes in "The Artist"?

4. What was the subject of "The Noble Experiment"?

5. Why did Mencken call democracy a "self-limiting disease"?

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