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

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

3. What is the fundamental flaw of the democratic style of government?
(a) The people are not competent to govern themselves.
(b) There are simply too many intelligent people to decide between.
(c) Voting systems can never be 100% accurate.
(d) Over time, democracy resembles monarchy.

4. What is Mencken's opinion of romantic love?
(a) It is a great and noble thing.
(b) It benefits men rather than women.
(c) Men must only marry for romantic love, and not for other considerations.
(d) It is a dangerous farce.

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 center of the universe, and rightly so.
(c) Man is the product of random and meaningless processes.
(d) Man is full of errors.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is Mencken's belief about the concept of sin?

2. Why is Mencken unable to embrace democratic political theory, as he himself states it in Chapter 9?

3. Which is NOT one of the qualities of Anglo-Saxons Mencken points to in Chapter 10?

4. What is the chief problem with political theorists?

5. What is the subject of Chapter 7?

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