The Vintage Mencken Quiz

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Questions 1-5 of 25:

1.

Complete the following aphorism found in "Sententiae": "Adultery is..." (from 45-49)

"...the destruction of love, life, and money."

"...a willingness to get what's yours."

"...the application of democracy to love."

"...like a marriage with a bad cold."

2.

What would best describe how Mencken felt about stage acting? (from 35-39)

Like portrait painting, stage acting provides a window into the truth.

It is completely unworthy of the price of admission.

It stabs at the soul with genuine feeling.

It gladdens the heart with falsity.

3.

According to Mencken, the intellectual tradition of Whitman and Emerson had been transferred to which man? (from 15-18)

Jose Miguel Gomez.

Theodore Dreiser.

Van Wyck Brooks.

William Jennings Bryan.

4.

What happened when Mencken sent a junior reporter to get him liquor during the Republican National Convention? (from 24-28)

The reporter stole liquor from an aristocrat's secret stash.

The convention organizers caught Mencken and toss him out.

The reporter encountered drunken goons, and failed to get any liquor.

The junior reporter was arrested and spends the night in jail.

5.

What quotation did Mencken borrow from Theodore Dreiser in "Cavia Cobaya"? (from 15-18)

Does a woman of considerable means ever want for a man of inconsiderable means?

Does a man of moderate means never aspire to great wealth?

Does the average strong, successful man confine himself to one woman?

Does the temperate, invulnerable man ever give in to the sins of alcohol?

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