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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through 45-49.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. According to Mencken, how might Calvin Coolidge had handled the Great Depression?
(a) By sleeping through it.
(b) By cowering under his desk.
(c) By taking a more active role than FDR ever had.
(d) By nationalizing many sectors of the economy.

2. Who presided over the Republican Convention of 1920?
(a) Grover Garfield.
(b) William Jennings Bryan.
(c) Henry Cabot Lodge.
(d) Franklin Pierce.

3. What was "The Art Eternal" according to Mencken?
(a) Prostitution.
(b) Portrait painting.
(c) Lying.
(d) Literature.

4. According to "The Incomparable Buzz-Saw," what is a woman's only power?
(a) The power over her children.
(b) The power to ruin a man's life with divorce.
(c) The power of a house's pursestrings.
(d) The power to torture a man through love.

5. Which is one of the stated reasons the editor put the volume together?
(a) To introduce the works of H. L. Mencken to a new generation.
(b) To expose the corrupt policies of Franklin Delano Roosevelt.
(c) To sell books for profit.
(d) To fight charges that Mencken was racist.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did Mencken think about Lincoln's issuing of the Emancipation Proclamation?

2. In "Gore in the Caribees," what was Mencken's perspective on the revolution in Cuba?

3. What was Mencken's general opinion of religion at the end of "Holy Writ"?

4. In "Star-Spangled Man," Mencken argued that who, besides soldiers, should get medals?

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

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