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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 10.1.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In what century did Americans begin to rebel against the capitalization trends dominant in England?
(a) The nineteenth.
(b) The twentieth.
(c) The seventeenth.
(d) The eighteenth.

2. What "Anglomaniac affectation" did Noah Webster sneer at in 1789?
(a) The recalcitrance to neologisms.
(b) Clinging to the silent "u" as in "honour."
(c) The literature of Fowler.
(d) The broad "a."

3. From what language does the English word "moose" come?
(a) Cherokee.
(b) Italian.
(c) Algonquin.
(d) English.

4. Who is apparently the first literary critic to point out the "enormous gap between the literate and unliterate American"?
(a) Rene Wellek.
(b) Allen Tate.
(c) Francis Hackett.
(d) I.A. Richards.

5. What does the English "secondary school" correspond to in American?
(a) College.
(b) Middle school.
(c) High school.
(d) Elementary school.

Short Answer Questions

1. According to Mencken, Italians often take the names of what nationality when they marry?

2. What class of Americans is most influenced by Briticisms, according to Mencken in Chapter 5.2?

3. Which Founding Father is said to have sought to establish a new American alphabet?

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

5. Which Founding Father coined the term "to belittle"?

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