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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through 10-14.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. How was Theodore Dreiser like Joseph Conrad, according to Mencken?
(a) Both men were inherently optimistic.
(b) They both seemed to hate women.
(c) They both had a love of pirate adventures and the sea life.
(d) Both men shared an innate pessimism.

3. Which is NOT a reason Mencken gives for admiring Theodore Dreiser?
(a) Dreiser's unchanging subject matter and style.
(b) The ability for Dreiser to touch a reader on an emotional level.
(c) Dreiser's unique place in the world of literature.
(d) Dreiser's insistence on describing every detail of a scene.

4. What did Mencken satirize in "Quid Est Veritas"?
(a) Country doctors.
(b) Those who insisted Latin was not a dead language.
(c) Aristocrats.
(d) Organized religion.

5. What was the subject of the first Mencken-written article that was ever published?
(a) Political discontent in Europe.
(b) The gold standard.
(c) A high-society party.
(d) A horse robbery.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which boat captain helped Mencken while in Cuba?

2. Which book was Mencken's touchstone into literature?

3. What was the nature of the Prince of Wales story Mencken tells in "The Art Eternal"?

4. What was Mencken's nickname for Chesapeake Bay?

5. What human flaw does democracy depend upon, according to Mencken?

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