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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 is the "pretty man" hated?
(a) The pretty man is almost universally also very dumb.
(b) Women are jealous of pretty men.
(c) Women care less for beauty than men do.
(d) The pretty man reminds us of all of our own faults.

2. What was the most damning effect of the Civil War, in regard to the South?
(a) It replaced religious values with secular ones.
(b) It created the Southern aristocracy.
(c) It introduced technology into an innocent and primitive society.
(d) It destroyed the Southern aristocracy.

3. Which is NOT one of Mencken's view of humankind as expressed in Chapter 1?
(a) Man is the product of random and meaningless processes.
(b) Man is full of errors.
(c) Man is the center of the universe, and rightly so.
(d) Man is prone to believe in ridiculous things.

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

5. What effect has intermarriage had on the American South?
(a) It has introduced culture such as art and literature into the American South.
(b) It has negatively blurred the lines between high class and low class.
(c) It has infused the American South with the very best qualities of Western Europe.
(d) It has positively blurred the lines between high class and low class.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Mencken feel about the overall capacity for virtue in the human race?

2. What is the fundamental flaw of the democratic style of government?

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

4. How intelligent are women according to Mencken?

5. What does Mencken see as the problem with contemporary Protestantism?

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