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

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

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

4. Which of the early presidents does Mencken identify as archetypal of the new American?
(a) Thomas Jefferson.
(b) Andrew Jackson.
(c) James Monroe.
(d) George Washington.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. According to Mencken, which title is subject to the greatest divergence in usage?

2. According to the report of Beverley, what did a group of soldiers turn into after eating some Jimson Weed?

3. From which of the following have the English changed their spelling?

4. What notable author was the first Englishman to carry Americanisms successfully back to his home?

5. Which of the following is a term used by philologists to indicate the "instinctive search, etymologically unsound, for short roots in long words"?

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