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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 11, The South, Chapter 12, History.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How has Mencken organized his book?
(a) By subject.
(b) By length.
(c) By date.
(d) By author.

2. What group of people has been "overestimated" throughout the course of human history?
(a) Egyptians.
(b) Barbarians.
(c) Greeks.
(d) Russians.

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

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

5. Why is the "pretty man" hated?
(a) Women care less for beauty than men do.
(b) The pretty man is almost universally also very dumb.
(c) Women are jealous of pretty men.
(d) The pretty man reminds us of all of our own faults.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the "average man's" opinion of government?

2. What do most women think of their husbands according to Mencken?

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

4. What kind of promises do politicians make?

5. What is the consequence of someone believing in God, according to Mencken in Chapter 1?

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