The American Language Quiz | One Week Quiz A

This set of Lesson Plans consists of approximately 131 pages of tests, essay questions, lessons, and other teaching materials.

The American Language Quiz | One Week Quiz A

This set of Lesson Plans consists of approximately 131 pages of tests, essay questions, lessons, and other teaching materials.
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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 9.8 | Chapter 9.9.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does Mencken characterize the vulgar American habitual use of the double negative?
(a) With "periodic intensity."
(b) With "happy fecundity."
(c) With "sturdy fidelity."
(d) With "unconscious loathing."

2. In what sort of languages are double negatives "perfectly allowable"?
(a) Teutonic.
(b) Semitic.
(c) Romance.
(d) Asiatic.

3. What purpose does the double negative primarily serve?
(a) Confusion.
(b) Reinforcement.
(c) Rhetorical circuitry.
(d) Syntactical compactness.

4. What does Sayce say that language is composed of in 1879?
(a) Sounds.
(b) Meanings.
(c) Letters.
(d) Words.

5. In terms of politics, an American candidate "runs" for office. What does an English candidate do?
(a) Stands.
(b) Sits.
(c) Jumps.
(d) Sprints.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which of the following groups of immigrants does Mencken claim have a profound effect on not only the American vocabulary, but also its pronunciation and idiom?

2. Which double negative word is primarily found in Shakespeare?

3. How do the English pronounce the first syllable in "lieutenant"?

4. In what language does Mencken state the double negative was once "quite respectable?"

5. Which word do Americans use for "angry" that was once an English provincialism considered base?

(see the answer key)

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