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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 11.1.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Which of the following does names, used for a settlement, Mencken not list as bespattering the land?
(a) Washington.
(b) Lafayette.
(c) Madison.
(d) Jefferson.

2. What term did John Witherspoon coin, framing it within the context of vulgarity?
(a) Anglophile.
(b) Americanism.
(c) Briticism.
(d) Scientist.

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

4. 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?
(a) Publishing.
(b) Travel.
(c) Localisms.
(d) Intercommunication.

5. In what language does Mencken state the double negative was once "quite respectable?"
(a) Anglo-Saxon.
(b) Russian.
(c) French.
(d) Spanish.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which of the following did the African slaves NOT introduce to American English?

2. According to the report of Beverley, what did a group of soldiers turn into after eating some Jimson Weed?

3. What is frequently omitted in phrases indicated desire or intent, as indicated in Chapter 9.9?

4. In which city are the French names of streets reported by Mencken to be beautiful but so barbarously pronounced as to be unrecognizable by a Frenchman?

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

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