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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the American substitute for the English word "tin"?
(a) Dish.
(b) Cup.
(c) Can.
(d) Bucket.

2. What is the universal substitute for the word "ye" as described in Chapter 6.2?
(a) You.
(b) Thou.
(c) The.
(d) Thee.

3. Whose "gaping maw" often spoils an "apt and ingenious neologism," according to Mencken in Chapter 11.1?
(a) The popular novelists.
(b) The popular journalists.
(c) The elite.
(d) The proletariat.

4. Who is the author of "Travels in North America," published in 1827?
(a) Charles Astor Bristed.
(b) Basil Hall.
(c) Henry Alford.
(d) Louis Untermeyer.

5. What does Sayce say that language is composed of in 1879?
(a) Letters.
(b) Words.
(c) Meanings.
(d) Sounds.

Short Answer Questions

1. According to Mencken, the English opposition to American spelling transcends the academic and takes on the character of what?

2. According to Chapter 2.6, what regional pronunciation is erroneously thought by some to have superior authority regarding English pronunciation?

3. What religious affiliation, commonly held in both countries, has had a larger influence on names in America than in England?

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

5. In what part of the country did the Irish attain to a "truly impressive political power before the first native-born generation of them had grown up" as Mencken states in Chapter 10.1?

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