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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. How does Mencken define government?
(a) A dozen men who can't do anything right.
(b) A conspiracy against superior men.
(c) A war on the poor.
(d) A collection of the looniest among us.

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

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

4. What or who rules the American South?
(a) Secular liberals.
(b) An aristocratic class.
(c) Baptist and Methodist "barbarism".
(d) A love for automobiles and technology.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What is Mencken's opinion of original Christians?

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

3. What is the purpose of monogamy, according to Mencken?

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

5. Who does Mencken dub "The Lady of Joy"?

(see the answer key)

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