A Mencken Chrestomathy Quiz | Eight Week Quiz C

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A Mencken Chrestomathy Quiz | Eight Week Quiz C

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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 11, The South, Chapter 12, History.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is Mencken's opinion about the variety of political systems?
(a) Aristocracy is by far the worst form of government.
(b) All governments accomplish the same thing and there are very little differences.
(c) Dictatorship is preferable to oligarchy.
(d) Different political systems accomplish vastly different things.

2. What is the relationship between free will and morality?
(a) Free will has no relationship to morality.
(b) Free will is the cause as well as the effect of morality.
(c) Free will and morality work hand in hand in a positive way.
(d) Free will creates several difficulties for morality.

3. What does Mencken believe about the concept of evil?
(a) Evil is a made-up term, and does not really exist.
(b) Evil is the reason why children are born.
(c) Evil is real, and exists all around us.
(d) Evil is just another word for good; it's all relative.

4. What kind of men does a democracy produce?
(a) Noble, confident men who do not envy others.
(b) Stupid men who can barely master the multiplication tables.
(c) Depressing men full of nostalgia.
(d) Energetic men with too much time on their hands.

5. Which is NOT one of Mencken's view of humankind as expressed in Chapter 1?
(a) Man is prone to believe in ridiculous things.
(b) Man is the product of random and meaningless processes.
(c) Man is full of errors.
(d) Man is the center of the universe, and rightly so.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the purpose of monogamy, according to Mencken?

2. What does democracy ruin, according to Mencken?

3. How intelligent are women according to Mencken?

4. Which Southern state does Mencken particularly mourn in his obituary on the American South?

5. In Chapter 7, Mencken notes that there are too few books written about what subject?

(see the answer key)

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