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

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

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

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

5. Which London newspaper lamented the "menace" that American movies offer to the purity of the English language?
(a) The <i>Daily News</i>.
(b) The <i>Daily Herald</i>.
(c) The <i>Times</i>.
(d) The <i>Illustrated London News</i>.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who proposed a generally accepted nomenclature for currency in 1785?

2. What sound did Webster object to inserting in words such as "gradual" and "nature," before the "u"?

3. According to the tale spread by William Gifford, what language was supposed to be substituted for English during the Revolutionary War?

4. Who is the author of "Travels in North America," published in 1827?

5. What term did John Witherspoon coin, framing it within the context of vulgarity?

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