The American Language Quiz | Two Week Quiz A

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The American Language Quiz | Two 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 8.3 | Chapter 8.4.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. According to Mencken, the English opposition to American spelling transcends the academic and takes on the character of what?
(a) The ethical.
(b) The political.
(c) The religious.
(d) The patriotic.

2. Which of the following groups of foreign immigrants does Mencken not attribute influence over American English in Chapter 6.4?
(a) Slavic peoples.
(b) South-Pacific Asian Islanders.
(c) Italians.
(d) Russian Jews.

3. What word best describes the English attitude towards the adoption of foreign loan-words, in contrast to the American attitude?
(a) Accepting.
(b) Conservative.
(c) Tolerating.
(d) Liberal.

4. What American writer does Mencken claim likely inspired envy in British writers?
(a) Griswold.
(b) Poe.
(c) Fowler.
(d) Irving.

5. Which 1914 English dictionary made many important concessions to American spellings?
(a) The London Pocket Dictionary.
(b) The Concise Oxford Dictionary.
(c) The Cambridge Fleet Edition.
(d) The New English Dictionary.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which of the early presidents does Mencken identify as archetypal of the new American?

2. Which of the following did the African slaves NOT introduce to American English?

3. Which is the second factor that Mencken identifies as an impediment to the growth of the American language in Chapter 3.1?

4. According to Mencken, which title is subject to the greatest divergence in usage?

5. From which of the following have the English changed their spelling?

(see the answer key)

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