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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 5, Morals, Chapter 6, Crime and Punishment.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who is the "ideal citizen of Christendom" according to Chapter 3?
(a) Young men full of passion.
(b) The hapless hero of a female novel.
(c) An emotionally cold woman.
(d) Young men drained of passion.

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

3. What does the "romantic" type of person inevitably do?
(a) Makes light of serious situations.
(b) Exaggerates.
(c) Befriends everyone they meet.
(d) Betrays.

4. What kind of sense of right and wrong do children have?
(a) Children are born without a sense of right and wrong, but they develop it without society's interference.
(b) Children are born without a sense of right and wrong, and society imposes this sense upon them.
(c) Children are born with a sense of right and wrong, which is then corrupted by society.
(d) Children are born with a sense of right and wrong, and they carry this into adulthood.

5. Who derives several advantages from marriage?
(a) Only the state.
(b) Men and women equally.
(c) Men only.
(d) Women only.

Short Answer Questions

1. What subject does Mencken begin his volume with?

2. Per Chapter 2, what kind of person has Mencken never met?

3. What is Mencken's belief about the concept of sin?

4. How does Mencken characterize a woman's level of civility?

5. What is Mencken's belief about crime?

(see the answer key)

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