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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What word did Webster argue should have its vowel sound changed to "ee" instead of "eh"?
(a) Beer.
(b) Deaf.
(c) Heft.
(d) Beef.

3. What class of Americans is most influenced by Briticisms, according to Mencken in Chapter 5.2?
(a) The vulgar.
(b) The fashionable.
(c) The poor.
(d) The middle-class.

4. Who proposed a generally accepted nomenclature for currency in 1785?
(a) Thomas Jefferson.
(b) Richard Grant White.
(c) Gouverneur Morris.
(d) Noah Webster.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Which case of the noun in English yet has an inflection at the time of Mencken's writing?

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

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

4. Into what was the French surname "Beauchamp" translated in America?

5. What is the English meaning of the phrase "to carry on"?

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