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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. From which of the following have the English changed their spelling?
(a) Develope.
(b) Programme.
(c) Gramme.
(d) Kilogramme.

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

3. From what language is "gob" reputed to be derived in Chapter 11.2?
(a) Persian.
(b) Spanish.
(c) Chinese.
(d) Japanese.

4. For which voiceless consonant is the voiced "d" substituting with growing regularity, according to Mearns?
(a) T.
(b) B.
(c) S.
(d) C.

5. Which organization produced a prospectus in 1913 that warned against extreme English conservatism in the spelling of foreign loan-words?
(a) British Literary Association.
(b) Simplified Spelling Board.
(c) Society for Pure English.
(d) National Education Association.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Which double negative word is primarily found in Shakespeare?

3. Whose "gaping maw" often spoils an "apt and ingenious neologism," according to Mencken in Chapter 11.1?

4. 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?

5. Who does Mencken quote as saying, "There is no part of the world where nomenclature is so rich, poetical, humorous and picturesque as in the United States of America"?

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