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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 17, Pedagogy, Chapter 18, Psychology.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does democracy ruin, according to Mencken?
(a) Individual greatness.
(b) Wealth.
(c) The means of production.
(d) Common sense.

2. What does Mencken believe is the proper focus of psychology?
(a) The study of physical deformity (such as injury) on the mind.
(b) The study of psychological differences between people from various trades or types.
(c) The study of mob mentality.
(d) The origins of lying.

3. What was the goal of early democratists?
(a) Concrete material gains.
(b) Definitions of concepts like truth and beauty.
(c) Philosophical frameworks to support democracy.
(d) The overthrow of the wealthy.

4. Mencken sees that too often any discussion of suicide is rooted in what incorrect notion?
(a) The family would suffer in a suicide.
(b) Death is painful.
(c) Killing oneself is an expensive proposition.
(d) Death is painless.

5. What does Mencken believe about Freudianism?
(a) It it in no way truly reflects the brilliance of Sigmund Freud.
(b) It makes several valid points.
(c) It is complete quackery.
(d) It goes further to explain the human mind than anything before it.

Short Answer Questions

1. What aspect of human nature fuels the democratic system of government?

2. Which is NOT one of the qualities of Anglo-Saxons Mencken points to in Chapter 10?

3. What is Mencken's view of contemporary psychological science?

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

5. For Mencken, what is the nature of the range of the central psychological spectrum upon which all humans reside?

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