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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. What kind of test does Mencken believe teachers should have to pass prior to teaching?
(a) An IQ test.
(b) A speech test.
(c) An SAT test.
(d) A test of general world knowledge.

2. Punishment for crime is too often what, according to Mencken?
(a) Effective, which results in the murder of the human spirit.
(b) Cruel and unusual.
(c) The product of poor people exerting influence over the rich.
(d) Hypocritical and dishonest.

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

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

5. What word might Mencken use to characterize Mary Baker G. Eddy?
(a) Necessary.
(b) Fraud.
(c) Intellectual.
(d) Saint.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What kind of promises do politicians make?

3. What is Mencken's hope for democracy?

4. What does Mencken NOT believe about the possibility for morality to change over time?

5. What kind of men does a democracy produce?

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