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

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

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

4. How does Mencken characterize a woman's level of civility?
(a) Women have created their own civilization quite distinct from men.
(b) Women do not submit to civilization and must be coerced.
(c) Women are much more civilized than men.
(d) Women are relatively uncivilized.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the purpose of monogamy, according to Mencken?

2. Mencken sees that too often any discussion of suicide is rooted in what incorrect notion?

3. What does the "metaphysical" type of person inevitably do?

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

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

(see the answer key)

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