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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 7, Death, Chapter 8, Government.

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 enhance and legitimize passion.
(c) Marriage serves to protect society from itself.
(d) Marriage serves to emphasize romantic love.

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

3. What "call" does Mencken make to America's poets in Chapter 7?
(a) He wishes them to burn all of their poems and drown themselves.
(b) He wishes them to rewrite Ode to a Grecian Urn.
(c) He wishes them to write a funeral service for the damned.
(d) He wishes them to speak upon the beauty of the female figure.

4. Mencken sees that too often any discussion of suicide is rooted in what incorrect notion?
(a) Death is painless.
(b) Death is painful.
(c) The family would suffer in a suicide.
(d) Killing oneself is an expensive proposition.

5. How has Mencken organized his book?
(a) By length.
(b) By subject.
(c) By date.
(d) By author.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who derives several advantages from marriage?

2. How intelligent are women according to Mencken?

3. Which is NOT one of Mencken's view of humankind as expressed in Chapter 1?

4. In Chapter 7, Mencken notes that there are too few books written about what subject?

5. What is Mencken's opinion of romantic love?

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