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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 3.5 | Chapter 4.1.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Which defender of Americanisms cited by Mencken in Chapter 1.3 states that "Language is made by the people"?
(a) Richard Aldington.
(b) George Ade.
(c) Edgar Jepson.
(d) William Archer.

2. What language does Mencken quote Sidney Low as saying is not taught to English youth?
(a) American.
(b) Greek.
(c) Russian.
(d) Latin.

3. Who protested the adoption of the broad "a" in an 1857 work entitled "The Autocrat at the Breakfast Table"?
(a) Oliver Wendell Holmes.
(b) Richard Meade Bache.
(c) Noah Webster.
(d) Frank H. Vizetelly.

4. What term did John Witherspoon coin, framing it within the context of vulgarity?
(a) Briticism.
(b) Anglophile.
(c) Americanism.
(d) Scientist.

5. What use of storage was added to the American meaning of the word "barn?"
(a) Crops.
(b) Cattle.
(c) Horses.
(d) Chickens.

Short Answer Questions

1. To what phrase did Benjamin Franklin, Noah Webster, and Robert Southey object as a base Americanism, as discussed in Chapter 2.3?

2. From what language does the English word "moose" come?

3. What English word does the author of "Men and Manners" lament about the American re-signification?

4. According to Mencken at the beginning of Chapter 1.3, what do the novelists and newspapermen on either side of the Atlantic ocean delight in?

5. What word in American is used for the English word "shoe?"

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