1. What comparison does Mencken make between man and animal in Chapter 1?
(a) Many animals have superior faculties to man.
(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) The only thing man cannot do that animal can is fly.

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

3. What kind of sense of right and wrong do children have?
(a) Children are born without a sense of right and wrong, but they develop it without society's interference.
(b) Children are born with a sense of right and wrong, which is then corrupted by society.
(c) Children are born without a sense of right and wrong, and society imposes this sense upon them.
(d) Children are born with a sense of right and wrong, and they carry this into adulthood.

4. How does Mencken feel about the overall capacity for virtue in the human race?
(a) Most people are virtuous, but a few people spoil it for everyone.
(b) Very few men are virtuous.
(c) Virtue is a nonsense term, because everything is relative.
(d) Everyone is virtuous, it's just a matter of uncovering it.

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