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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. According to Benjamin Franklin, what was roughly the population of the colonies in 1751?
(a) 50,000,000
(b) 1,000,000
(c) 10,000,000
(d) 500,000

2. 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) Jew/Hebrew.
(b) Latino/Hispanic.
(c) White/Caucasian.
(d) Black/African American.

3. Mencken claims that Noah Webster contains less of the scientific inquirer and more of what?
(a) The philological traditionalist.
(b) The erudite fool.
(c) The teacher.
(d) The father.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. To what country does the English correspondent in Chapter 4.5 ascribe many American expletives?

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

3. 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?

4. What does the English "secondary school" correspond to in American?

5. How many classifications of Americanisms does Gilbert M. Tucker provide in 1921?

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