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

2. What use of storage was added to the American meaning of the word "barn?"
(a) Horses.
(b) Cattle.
(c) Chickens.
(d) Crops.

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

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

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

Short Answer 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?

2. Who is the author of "Dissertations on the English Language"?

3. What does John S. Farmer describe the Western vernacular as being?

4. What event does Mencken credit with strengthening the obfuscation of distinction between American and British English?

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

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