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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 kind of promises do politicians make?
(a) Ones they cannot deliver.
(b) Ones they have no intention of fulfilling.
(c) Ones they can fulfill.
(d) Ones they have polled voters about.

2. What was the goal of early democratists?
(a) Philosophical frameworks to support democracy.
(b) Definitions of concepts like truth and beauty.
(c) The overthrow of the wealthy.
(d) Concrete material gains.

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

4. Who derives several advantages from marriage?
(a) Only the state.
(b) Women only.
(c) Men and women equally.
(d) Men only.

5. Mencken sees that too often any discussion of suicide is rooted in what incorrect notion?
(a) Killing oneself is an expensive proposition.
(b) Death is painless.
(c) The family would suffer in a suicide.
(d) Death is painful.

Short Answer Questions

1. Privately, politicians are what kind of people?

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

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

4. What is the relationship between free will and morality?

5. Per Chapter 2, what kind of person has Mencken never met?

(see the answer key)

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