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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 6.1 | Chapter 6.2.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who protested the adoption of the broad "a" in an 1857 work entitled "The Autocrat at the Breakfast Table"?
(a) Richard Meade Bache.
(b) Noah Webster.
(c) Oliver Wendell Holmes.
(d) Frank H. Vizetelly.

2. According to Chapter 2.6, what regional pronunciation is erroneously thought by some to have superior authority regarding English pronunciation?
(a) Chicago.
(b) South-eastern.
(c) New York.
(d) Boston.

3. According to Mencken, how do the Americans consider the precise English use of the indefinite pronoun ("one")?
(a) Ambiguously.
(b) Respectfully.
(c) Apathetically.
(d) Disdainfully.

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

5. What notable author was the first Englishman to carry Americanisms successfully back to his home?
(a) Joseph Conrad.
(b) G.K. Chesterton.
(c) Cleveland Coxe.
(d) Charles Dickens.

Short Answer Questions

1. What moniker of currency has persisted in America despite having no currency properly of that name?

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

3. What "Anglomaniac affectation" did Noah Webster sneer at in 1789?

4. What American writer does Mencken claim likely inspired envy in British writers?

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

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