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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 5, Morals, Chapter 6, Crime and Punishment.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What is Mencken's belief about morality?
(a) Morality is a made-up concept that doesn't exist.
(b) Morality is necessary.
(c) Morality is unnecessary.
(d) Morality is reserved only for the aristocracy.

3. Why is the "pretty man" hated?
(a) The pretty man is almost universally also very dumb.
(b) The pretty man reminds us of all of our own faults.
(c) Women care less for beauty than men do.
(d) Women are jealous of pretty men.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What comparison does Mencken make between man and animal in Chapter 1?

2. What does Mencken believe about the universality of morality?

3. What is Mencken's opinion of original Christians?

4. What kind of sense of right and wrong do children have?

5. What is the "altruist" motivated by?

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