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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 9.10.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the name of the professor who advocates the assimilation and alteration of the spelling and accentuation of foreign words?
(a) Nora Helmar.
(b) Louise Pound.
(c) Edmund Gosse.
(d) Brander Matthews.

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

3. What country's works dominated the reading habits of the American colonists in the latter 18th century?
(a) Germany.
(b) France.
(c) England.
(d) Denmark.

4. What does John S. Farmer describe the Western vernacular as being?
(a) Flippant and pointless.
(b) Irreverent and irrelevant.
(c) Racy and pungent.
(d) Dry and prolonged.

5. What word best describes the English attitude towards the adoption of foreign loan-words, in contrast to the American attitude?
(a) Liberal.
(b) Accepting.
(c) Tolerating.
(d) Conservative.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the physical basis to which the nasal twang of Americans is ascribed?

2. As what part of speech does vulgar American consider the word "self" within the spirit of the language?

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

4. What letter, when preceding a consonant, greatly irritated Henry James like a "morose grinding of the back teeth?"

5. How many pages in "The King's English" are dedicated to explaining the distinction between "will" and "shall"?

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