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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 was "unusual" about Mr. Gray?
(a) He was electrocuted to death.
(b) He was a victim of leprosy.
(c) He refused to give his real name to Mencken.
(d) He could not remember faces.

2. What subject does Mencken begin his volume with?
(a) The mysteries of women.
(b) The horrors of the carnival.
(c) The nature of man.
(d) The automobile.

3. What device does Mencken call a "boon to bores"?
(a) Radio.
(b) Telephone.
(c) Thermostat.
(d) Elevator.

4. What is the "average man's" opinion of government?
(a) The government is a source of great good.
(b) The government is deceitful and contrary to his interests.
(c) The government is an unknown phenomenon the average man knows nothing about.
(d) The government is made up of people like him.

5. Where did Mencken meet Sister Aimee?
(a) The Los Angeles Basilica.
(b) An Indian retreat.
(c) The San Diego Zoo.
(d) The offices of the Baltimore Sun.

Short Answer Questions

1. What point does Mencken make in his discussion of Darwinian evolution?

2. What comparison does Mencken make between man and animal in Chapter 1?

3. Why might "reflective and skeptical men" refrain from suicide?

4. What does Mencken believe about the universality of morality?

5. What is Mencken's hope for democracy?

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