1. How does Mencken feel about the overall capacity for virtue in the human race?
(a) Virtue is a nonsense term, because everything is relative.
(b) Most people are virtuous, but a few people spoil it for everyone.
(c) Very few men are virtuous.
(d) Everyone is virtuous, it's just a matter of uncovering it.

2. What is Mencken's opinion of the belief that man has a soul, according to Chapter 1?
(a) The notion of a soul is simple, but still very relevant today.
(b) The notion of a soul has led to unprecedented successes in philosophy and elsewhere.
(c) The notion of a soul has failed to result in more people acting like God.
(d) The notion of a soul is humanity's one bright spot.

3. Why is the "pretty man" hated?
(a) Women care less for beauty than men do.
(b) The pretty man is almost universally also very dumb.
(c) Women are jealous of pretty men.
(d) The pretty man reminds us of all of our own faults.

4. What kind of sense of right and wrong do children have?
(a) Children are born without a sense of right and wrong, and society imposes this sense upon them.
(b) Children are born without a sense of right and wrong, but they develop it without society's interference.
(c) Children are born with a sense of right and wrong, which is then corrupted by society.
(d) Children are born with a sense of right and wrong, and they carry this into adulthood.

5. Who derives several advantages from marriage?
(a) Women only.
(b) Only the state.
(c) Men only.
(d) Men and women equally.