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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 intelligent are women according to Mencken?
(a) They pretend to be intelligent, but deep down are quite stupid.
(b) They are usually much more intelligent than men.
(c) They are completely stupid in thought and deed.
(d) They pretend to be dumb, but are in fact quite intelligent.

2. Privately, politicians are what kind of people?
(a) Charming individuals.
(b) Criminals.
(c) Lying wretches.
(d) Exceedingly eccentric.

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

4. 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) Everyone is virtuous, it's just a matter of uncovering it.
(d) Virtue is a nonsense term, because everything is relative.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What subject does Mencken begin his volume with?

3. In "female novels," how are males portrayed according to Mencken?

4. How does Mencken characterize a woman's level of civility?

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

(see the answer key)

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