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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 does the "romantic" type of person inevitably do?
(a) Makes light of serious situations.
(b) Exaggerates.
(c) Betrays.
(d) Befriends everyone they meet.

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

3. Why might "reflective and skeptical men" refrain from suicide?
(a) For the thrill of physical activity.
(b) For the great women in life.
(c) For the good food in life.
(d) For the sense of humor in life.

4. How did morality come to be, according to Mencken?
(a) Morality is a creation of the Christian church.
(b) Morality evolved from social practices required to survive.
(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 "call" does Mencken make to America's poets in Chapter 7?
(a) He wishes them to rewrite Ode to a Grecian Urn.
(b) He wishes them to burn all of their poems and drown themselves.
(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.

Short Answer Questions

1. What subject does Mencken begin his volume with?

2. Privately, politicians are what kind of people?

3. How intelligent are women according to Mencken?

4. What is the "average man's" opinion of government?

5. How has Mencken organized his book?

(see the answer key)

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