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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. Which of the following is a term used by philologists to indicate the "instinctive search, etymologically unsound, for short roots in long words"?
(a) Etymanalyzing.
(b) Formative de-synthesizing.
(c) Deconstructing.
(d) Back-formation.

2. What word in common honorifics did Edwin S. Gould protest against omitting in 1867?
(a) Right.
(b) Very.
(c) Most.
(d) The.

3. What English word does the author of "Men and Manners" lament about the American re-signification?
(a) Missionary.
(b) College.
(c) Buttock.
(d) Clever.

4. Who is the author of "Travels in North America," published in 1827?
(a) Charles Astor Bristed.
(b) Basil Hall.
(c) Henry Alford.
(d) Louis Untermeyer.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. According to Chapter 8.4, what is the first impulse behind American imitation of English orthography?

3. What does the English "secondary school" correspond to in American?

4. In what location does Mencken say both the American and English orthographies flourish side by side?

5. Who "tries" a legal case in England?

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