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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How do the English pronounce the first syllable in "lieutenant"?
(a) Yeift.
(b) Lee-oo.
(c) Left.
(d) Loo.

2. Who is apparently the first literary critic to point out the "enormous gap between the literate and unliterate American"?
(a) I.A. Richards.
(b) Allen Tate.
(c) Francis Hackett.
(d) Rene Wellek.

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

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

5. According to Mencken, which title is subject to the greatest divergence in usage?
(a) General.
(b) Doctor.
(c) Professor.
(d) The Honorable.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Which Founding Father coined the term "to belittle"?

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

4. Which Americanized foreign loan-word in the common speech means, in its vulgar loaned form, "to prance or to walk consciously"?

5. According to Benjamin Franklin, what was roughly the population of the colonies in 1751?

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