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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 11, The South, Chapter 12, History.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What do most women think of their husbands according to Mencken?
(a) Women are indifferent to their husbands and use them as mere tools.
(b) Women love and respect their husbands.
(c) Women fear and loathe their husbands.
(d) Women pity their husbands and consider them asses.

2. What subject does Mencken begin his volume with?
(a) The automobile.
(b) The horrors of the carnival.
(c) The nature of man.
(d) The mysteries of women.

3. What does Mencken believe about the universality of morality?
(a) Morality is specific to a particular individual.
(b) Morality is specific to regions of the world.
(c) Morality is universal, and differences between moral systems are small.
(d) Morality depends upon the language one speaks.

4. What does Mencken believe about the concept of evil?
(a) Evil is a made-up term, and does not really exist.
(b) Evil is the reason why children are born.
(c) Evil is just another word for good; it's all relative.
(d) Evil is real, and exists all around us.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the subject of Chapter 7?

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

3. Why is Mencken unable to embrace democratic political theory, as he himself states it in Chapter 9?

4. Before democracy came to be, what did people believe this system of government to be?

5. Why did England experience particular difficulties in World War I according to Mencken?

(see the answer key)

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