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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. How many classifications of Americanisms does Gilbert M. Tucker provide in 1921?
(a) Twelve.
(b) Thirteen.
(c) Twenty.
(d) Two.

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

3. From what language does the English word "moose" come?
(a) Cherokee.
(b) Italian.
(c) English.
(d) Algonquin.

4. What event does Mencken credit with strengthening the obfuscation of distinction between American and British English?
(a) The First World War.
(b) The bombing of London.
(c) The French Revolution.
(d) The advent of the transatlantic telephone line.

5. Which defender of Americanisms cited by Mencken in Chapter 1.3 states that "Language is made by the people"?
(a) Richard Aldington.
(b) George Ade.
(c) William Archer.
(d) Edgar Jepson.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. To what phrase did Benjamin Franklin, Noah Webster, and Robert Southey object as a base Americanism, as discussed in Chapter 2.3?

4. 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?

5. Whose clarity of prevision does Mencken praise in the opening of Chapter 1.1?

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