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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 word in American is used for the English word "shoe?"
(a) Sandal.
(b) Boot.
(c) Slipper.
(d) Footing.

2. In what part of the country did the Irish attain to a "truly impressive political power before the first native-born generation of them had grown up" as Mencken states in Chapter 10.1?
(a) The Western cities.
(b) The Southeast.
(c) The Eastern cities.
(d) The Midwest.

3. According to the report of Beverley, what did a group of soldiers turn into after eating some Jimson Weed?
(a) Zombies.
(b) Corpses.
(c) Somnambulists.
(d) Fools.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. In what century did Americans begin to rebel against the capitalization trends dominant in England?

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

3. To what continent does Mencken attribute the acknowledgment of the differences between American and British English?

4. In what century did England replace the "i-sound" with the "oi-sound" in words such as "boy"?

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

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