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

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

3. 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) Everyone is virtuous, it's just a matter of uncovering it.
(c) Virtue is a nonsense term, because everything is relative.
(d) Very few men are virtuous.

4. 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.

5. What is the subject of Chapter 7?
(a) Death.
(b) Taxes.
(c) Quackery.
(d) Classical composers.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is Mencken's belief about the concept of sin?

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

3. What is Man's one unique characteristic, per Chapter 1?

4. Why might "reflective and skeptical men" refrain from suicide?

5. What subject does Mencken begin his volume with?

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