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

2. What does the "believer" type of person inevitably do?
(a) Thinks they are better than everyone.
(b) Annoys the company he or she is with.
(c) Maintains a faith in the improbable.
(d) Betrays friends as well as lovers.

3. What is the proper function of punishment for crimes?
(a) As a mere incentivizing device.
(b) As a deterrent only.
(c) As a deterrent, but also more.
(d) To create a sense of false dignity in society.

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

5. New England owes much of its history to what group of people?
(a) The Founding Fathers.
(b) Manhattan Indians.
(c) Anti-Puritans.
(d) Delaware Indians.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the relationship between Anglo-Saxons and civilization?

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

3. Which is NOT one of the features Mencken imagines for the Confederacy, had it survived the Civil War?

4. How did morality come to be, according to Mencken?

5. What kind of men has history been written by, to date?

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