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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 19, Science, Chapter 20, Quackery.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In "female novels," how are males portrayed according to Mencken?
(a) As "charlatans."
(b) As "heartthrobs."
(c) As "boobs."
(d) As "he-men."

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

3. How did morality come to be, according to Mencken?
(a) Morality evolved from the innate sense of right and wrong in children.
(b) Morality is a creation of the Christian church.
(c) Morality is the product of the woman's insidious influence over man.
(d) Morality evolved from social practices required to survive.

4. What "call" does Mencken make to America's poets in Chapter 7?
(a) He wishes them to write a funeral service for the damned.
(b) He wishes them to burn all of their poems and drown themselves.
(c) He wishes them to rewrite Ode to a Grecian Urn.
(d) He wishes them to speak upon the beauty of the female figure.

5. What is the "altruist" motivated by?
(a) Out and out greed.
(b) A selfish sense of self-worth.
(c) Being uncomfortable with unhappy people around him or her.
(d) A divine inspiration.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Mencken describe Oliver Wendell Holmes?

2. In Chapter 15, Mencken expresses surprise that no one has violated the tomb of which man?

3. What is Mencken's belief about morality?

4. Which Southern state does Mencken particularly mourn in his obituary on the American South?

5. Mencken sees that too often any discussion of suicide is rooted in what incorrect notion?

(see the answer key)

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