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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 2.3 | Chapter 2.4.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. According to Mencken at the beginning of Chapter 1.3, what do the novelists and newspapermen on either side of the Atlantic ocean delight in?
(a) Publishing.
(b) Localisms.
(c) Intercommunication.
(d) Travel.

2. How many dialects dominate American English, according to Chapter 1.5?
(a) Two.
(b) Ten.
(c) None.
(d) Four.

3. To what continent does Mencken attribute the acknowledgment of the differences between American and British English?
(a) Asia.
(b) North America.
(c) Europe.
(d) South America.

4. Whose clarity of prevision does Mencken praise in the opening of Chapter 1.1?
(a) Madison.
(b) Franklin.
(c) Jefferson.
(d) Waldo.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What word does Mencken find Dr. John Dewey using in place of the word "opium?"

2. What is the second characteristic that Mencken attributes to American English in Chapter 1.5?

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

4. How many classifications of Americanisms does Bartlett postulate in his 1859 dictionary?

5. Mencken claims that Noah Webster contains less of the scientific inquirer and more of what?

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