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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 9, Democracy, Chapter 10, Americans.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How has Mencken organized his book?
(a) By date.
(b) By subject.
(c) By author.
(d) By length.

2. How did morality come to be, according to Mencken?
(a) Morality is a creation of the Christian church.
(b) Morality evolved from the innate sense of right and wrong in children.
(c) Morality is the product of the woman's insidious influence over man.
(d) Morality evolved from social practices required to survive.

3. What does the "metaphysical" type of person inevitably do?
(a) Demands to know what you mean, even when it is obvious.
(b) Begs for spare change.
(c) Tips their hat for no reason.
(d) Becomes paralyzed with fear over the enormity of the universe.

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

5. What comparison does Mencken make between man and animal in Chapter 1?
(a) The only thing man cannot do that animal can is fly.
(b) Many animals have superior faculties to man.
(c) Man in every way has faculties that are superior to animals.
(d) The faculties of animal and man precisely balance when taken as a whole.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why is the culture of the United States deficient, according to Chapter 10?

2. What does the "believer" type of person inevitably do?

3. What is the relationship between Anglo-Saxons and civilization?

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

5. Why might "reflective and skeptical men" refrain from suicide?

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