The Vintage Mencken Quiz

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Questions 1-5 of 25:

1.

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

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

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.

2.

In "The National Letters," what was the cause of all the "diseases" which afflict America? (from 15-18)

The presumption of guilt, rather than innocence, in legal matters.

The lack of a stable aristocracy.

The lack of a proper diet.

Organized religion.

3.

Which was NOT a challenge to the schoolboy Mencken mentioned in "Travail"? (from 35-39)

They were taught by teachers they don't respect.

They were forced to be babysat against their will.

They were trying to learn things that are above their intellectual ability.

They were taught lessons no one has an interest in.

4.

How had Wallace behaved in "The Wallace Paranoia"? (from 45-49)

He was flirting with "most every thing in a dress."

He was convinced there are Communist space aliens.

He had been a bumbler and an "ass."

He had managed difficult times with great elegance.

5.

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

Jose Miguel Gomez.

Theodore Dreiser.

William Jennings Bryan.

Van Wyck Brooks.

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