View a FREE sample

This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 25, Literature, Chapter 26, Literati.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What was "unusual" about Mr. Gray?
(a) He could not remember faces.
(b) He was a victim of leprosy.
(c) He refused to give his real name to Mencken.
(d) He was electrocuted to death.

2. What does Mencken see as the problem with contemporary Protestantism?
(a) Protestants suffer from a Jewish weakness for poetry.
(b) Protestants have forgotten the teachings of Jesus Christ.
(c) All modern Protestants are wishy-washy centrists.
(d) There are few, sensible, centrist Protestants left.

3. What point does Mencken make by bringing up an 84-year-old man he knew in Chapter 21?
(a) The older a person gets, the crankier they get.
(b) Age is nothing but a number.
(c) A man's innate constitution may determine longevity more than illness.
(d) Illness makes a person stronger.

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 with a sense of right and wrong, and they carry this into adulthood.
(c) Children are born with a sense of right and wrong, which is then corrupted by society.
(d) Children are born without a sense of right and wrong, but they develop it without society's interference.

5. What is Man's one unique characteristic, per Chapter 1?
(a) The ability to betray.
(b) Imagination.
(c) Romantic feeling.
(d) Optimism.

Short Answer Questions

1. How intelligent are women according to Mencken?

2. What does Mencken say about the nature of scientific hypotheses?

3. Who derives several advantages from marriage?

4. What aspect of President Grant does Mencken admire?

5. What is Mencken's belief about crime?

(see the answer key)

This section contains 375 words (approx. 2 pages at 300 words per page) View a FREE sample