1. 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 painful.
(c) Death is painless.
(d) The family would suffer in a suicide.

2. What is the consequence of someone believing in God, according to Mencken in Chapter 1?
(a) That person must ascribe all of Man's faults to God as well.
(b) That person must pray on a daily basis.
(c) That person must be prepared to suffer eternal damnation for believing in the wrong god.
(d) That person must make offerings to his or her God.

3. What is the relationship between Anglo-Saxons and civilization?
(a) Anglo-Saxons created civilization, and are its last bastion of hope.
(b) Anglo-Saxons are the least civilized of all white people.
(c) Anglo-Saxons are the most civilized of all white people.
(d) Anglo-Saxons choose to live outside civilization because they are morally superior.

4. What does Mencken see as the problem with contemporary Protestantism?
(a) All modern Protestants are wishy-washy centrists.
(b) There are few, sensible, centrist Protestants left.
(c) Protestants have forgotten the teachings of Jesus Christ.
(d) Protestants suffer from a Jewish weakness for poetry.

5. Before democracy came to be, what did people believe this system of government to be?
(a) A heavenly form of government.
(b) A wretched form of government that should not come to pass.
(c) They believed democracy was just another form of dictatorship.
(d) It was such a foreign concept, no one could really imagine it.