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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What was the common, popular American slang word used for Germans during the First World War, according to Mencken?
(a) Kraut.
(b) Boche.
(c) Hun.
(d) Jerry.

2. According to the study of E.J. Hills, how many descriptive adjectives are possessed by the average child of two?
(a) 72.
(b) 59.
(c) 173.
(d) 23.

3. In what region of the United States are Spanish names corrupted, as Dutch names are in New York?
(a) Southwest.
(b) Southeast.
(c) Midwest.
(d) Northwest.

4. In what century did Americans begin to rebel against the capitalization trends dominant in England?
(a) The seventeenth.
(b) The eighteenth.
(c) The nineteenth.
(d) The twentieth.

5. Who was the author of the couplet that Mencken quotes: "For thou art a girl as much brighter than her / As he was a poet sublimer than me"?
(a) John Keats.
(b) Percy Bysse Shelley.
(c) Matthew Arnold.
(d) Matthew Prior.

Short Answer Questions

1. To how many in number does the comparative adjective relate?

2. According to the "Vocabulary of the A.E.F.," what percentage of the American military vocabulary was at least somewhat indecent?

3. What was the Anglo-Saxon form of the modern-day word "my," according to Mencken in Chapter 9.4?

4. Mencken reports hearing of a German named "Knoche," who to avoid being called "Nokky," changed his name to what?

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

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