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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. What does the English "secondary school" correspond to in American?
(a) College.
(b) High school.
(c) Elementary school.
(d) Middle school.

2. What word did the editor of the Westminster Gazette substitute for the incomprehensible dash in the mangled Americanism of Rupert Brooke?
(a) Brains.
(b) Jugs.
(c) Bottom.
(d) Boots.

3. Which London newspaper lamented the "menace" that American movies offer to the purity of the English language?
(a) The <i>Times</i>.
(b) The <i>Daily News</i>.
(c) The <i>Daily Herald</i>.
(d) The <i>Illustrated London News</i>.

4. According to Mencken, the name of what game puzzles etymologists?
(a) Whist.
(b) Poker.
(c) Football.
(d) Badminton.

5. What word does Mencken find Dr. John Dewey using in place of the word "opium?"
(a) Dope.
(b) Skag.
(c) Crack.
(d) Poppy.

Short Answer Questions

1. 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?

2. What is the English word for a collection of colleges?

3. What term did John Witherspoon coin, framing it within the context of vulgarity?

4. What does Mencken list as dominant the English alternative for the word "mail"?

5. The prudish reluctance to name what sort of diseases hindered proper preventative information?

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