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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Mencken reports hearing of a German named "Knoche," who to avoid being called "Nokky," changed his name to what?
(a) Knox.
(b) Nock.
(c) Knowles.
(d) Nixon.

2. According to the "Vocabulary of the A.E.F.," what percentage of the American military vocabulary was at least somewhat indecent?
(a) 8%.
(b) 25%.
(c) 12%.
(d) 50%.

3. What purpose does the double negative primarily serve?
(a) Reinforcement.
(b) Syntactical compactness.
(c) Rhetorical circuitry.
(d) Confusion.

4. As what part of speech does vulgar American consider the word "self" within the spirit of the language?
(a) An adjective.
(b) A noun.
(c) A verb.
(d) An adverb.

5. What religious affiliation, commonly held in both countries, has had a larger influence on names in America than in England?
(a) Presbyterianism.
(b) Puritanism.
(c) Anglicanism.
(d) Catholicism.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which of the following is the analogate to which Mencken compares the slang words overused by the ignorant?

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

3. In what year did Noah Webster die?

4. Which case of the noun in English yet has an inflection at the time of Mencken's writing?

5. Which still-popular German given name survives today, with a slight change in spelling, as Mencken reports in Chapter 10.2?

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