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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 do most women think of their husbands according to Mencken?
(a) Women love and respect their husbands.
(b) Women pity their husbands and consider them asses.
(c) Women are indifferent to their husbands and use them as mere tools.
(d) Women fear and loathe their husbands.

2. How does Mencken define government?
(a) A dozen men who can't do anything right.
(b) A conspiracy against superior men.
(c) A collection of the looniest among us.
(d) A war on the poor.

3. Which president did Charles Joseph Bonaparte work for?
(a) Theodore Roosevelt.
(b) Woodrow Wilson.
(c) Grover Cleveland.
(d) Warren G. Harding.

4. In Chapter 15, Mencken expresses surprise that no one has violated the tomb of which man?
(a) George Washington.
(b) Grover Cleveland.
(c) Charles Joseph Bonaparte.
(d) Oliver Wendell Holmes.

5. What does Mencken see as the problem with contemporary Protestantism?
(a) Protestants suffer from a Jewish weakness for poetry.
(b) All modern Protestants are wishy-washy centrists.
(c) Protestants have forgotten the teachings of Jesus Christ.
(d) There are few, sensible, centrist Protestants left.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Mencken describe President Coolidge?

2. What is the crux of Mr. Ayres' philosophical argument that Mencken criticizes?

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

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

5. Why does Mencken admire John D. Rockefeller?

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