1. What was Roosevelt's strategy at the Democratic National Convention of 1932?
(a) He wished to delay as much as possible, and honor every minor parliamentary procedure.
(b) He wished to rush motions through and bypass parliamentary procedures.
(c) Roosevelt had a comic struggle to obtain the highest podium, so he might look the tallest.
(d) He wished to bribe key officials for the nomination.

2. What was the source of Oliver Wendell Holmes' allure?
(a) His ability to stick to the facts and write sound legal opinions.
(b) His ability to bribe officials at every level of government.
(c) His eloquent, epigrammatic writing style.
(d) His personal charisma and sometimes outrageous court antics.

3. Why did Valentino invite Mencken to dinner?
(a) To ask for advice about a fight with a New York newspaper.
(b) To advise him on whether or not to take an upcoming film role.
(c) To beg him to ask a young woman out on a date for him.
(d) To challenge him to a duel for libel.

4. 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 had policemen follow the clergyman wherever he went.
(c) Gene ruled that religion was essential to the functioning of a democracy.
(d) Gene ruled that the clergyman was within his rights to practice in the Jewish ghetto.

5. What aspect of death did Mencken find most interesting?
(a) What the great poets have said about death.
(b) The physiological and chemical processes involved in death.
(c) How people are able to find God so quickly on their death bed.
(d) How so often people die not gloriously or with grace, but ridiculously.