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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What purpose does Miss Wittmann say is served by the shortening of word forms?
(a) Color.
(b) Creativity.
(c) None.
(d) Convenience.

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

3. To what does Mencken ascribe the inflection of English adjectives?
(a) Emphasis.
(b) Frivolity.
(c) Comparison.
(d) Convention.

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

5. Which Founding Father is said to have sought to establish a new American alphabet?
(a) Benjamin Franklin.
(b) Thomas Jefferson.
(c) John Hancock.
(d) George Washington.

Short Answer Questions

1. According to the study of E.J. Hills, how many descriptive adjectives are possessed by the average child of two?

2. What difference in pronunciation does Mencken state most sharply distinguishes the two dialects?

3. What word in common honorifics did Edwin S. Gould protest against omitting in 1867?

4. What does Mencken say, in colloquial American, has obliterated the verb?

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

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