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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. What is the purpose of monogamy, according to Mencken?
(a) Marriage serves to kill and restrain passion.
(b) Marriage serves to protect society from itself.
(c) Marriage serves to enhance and legitimize passion.
(d) Marriage serves to emphasize romantic love.

2. 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) The faculties of animal and man precisely balance when taken as a whole.
(c) Man in every way has faculties that are superior to animals.
(d) Many animals have superior faculties to man.

3. Who rules American culture, according to Chapter 10?
(a) Psychologists and doctors.
(b) The uncivilized mob.
(c) The learned aristocracy.
(d) Quacks such as chiropractors.

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

5. What does democracy ruin, according to Mencken?
(a) Common sense.
(b) Wealth.
(c) Individual greatness.
(d) The means of production.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the relationship between free will and morality?

2. What do most women think of their husbands according to Mencken?

3. Why is the "pretty man" hated?

4. Before democracy came to be, what did people believe this system of government to be?

5. What is the consequence of someone believing in God, according to Mencken in Chapter 1?

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