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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 4.4 | Chapter 4.5.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Which of the following did the African slaves NOT introduce to American English?
(a) Gumbo.
(b) Goober.
(c) Banjo.
(d) Voodoo.

2. What is the English word for a collection of colleges?
(a) A Cardinal.
(b) A Collegiate.
(c) A Maltin.
(d) A University.

3. Who proposed a generally accepted nomenclature for currency in 1785?
(a) Thomas Jefferson.
(b) Noah Webster.
(c) Richard Grant White.
(d) Gouverneur Morris.

4. What American writer does Mencken claim likely inspired envy in British writers?
(a) Fowler.
(b) Irving.
(c) Poe.
(d) Griswold.

5. What ethnicity of people, through the influence of the mercantile class, is referred to by a different name in the United States than in England?
(a) Latino/Hispanic.
(b) White/Caucasian.
(c) Black/African American.
(d) Jew/Hebrew.

Short Answer Questions

1. What language does Mencken quote Sidney Low as saying is not taught to English youth?

2. Which is the second factor that Mencken identifies as an impediment to the growth of the American language in Chapter 3.1?

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

4. What use of storage was added to the American meaning of the word "barn?"

5. What is the American substitute for the English word "tin"?

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