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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Whose "gaping maw" often spoils an "apt and ingenious neologism," according to Mencken in Chapter 11.1?
(a) The elite.
(b) The popular journalists.
(c) The popular novelists.
(d) The proletariat.

2. How many soldiers' names were presented to the House by Mr. Mondell in 1919?
(a) 102.
(b) 27.
(c) 43.
(d) 182.

3. Which country does Mencken state has a fondness for using surnames as given names?
(a) Canada.
(b) England.
(c) Mexico.
(d) America.

4. To how many in number does the comparative adjective relate?
(a) Two.
(b) Three or more.
(c) Five or more.
(d) Four or less.

5. For which voiceless consonant is the voiced "d" substituting with growing regularity, according to Mearns?
(a) C.
(b) S.
(c) B.
(d) T.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What religious affiliation, commonly held in both countries, has had a larger influence on names in America than in England?

3. What military slang term refers to the sunburned necks of the Marines?

4. Which Americanized foreign loan-word in the common speech means, in its vulgar loaned form, "to prance or to walk consciously"?

5. What sort of distinction frequently occurs between an adverb and its primary adjective?

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