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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 6.1 | Chapter 6.2.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How many dialects dominate American English, according to Chapter 1.5?
(a) Two.
(b) None.
(c) Four.
(d) Ten.

2. What use of storage was added to the American meaning of the word "barn?"
(a) Cattle.
(b) Crops.
(c) Horses.
(d) Chickens.

3. What vowel sound was dominant in 18th century New England pronunciation, despite common protests to the contrary?
(a) Flat a.
(b) Broad a.
(c) Flat e.
(d) Broad o.

4. What ethnicity of people, through the influence of the mercantile class, is referred to by a different name in the United States than in England?
(a) Latino/Hispanic.
(b) Jew/Hebrew.
(c) Black/African American.
(d) White/Caucasian.

5. Who is the author of "Dissertations on the English Language"?
(a) H.L. Mencken.
(b) Thomas Jefferson.
(c) Benjamin Franklin.
(d) Noah Webster.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is the author of "Travels in North America," published in 1827?

2. To what continent does Mencken attribute the acknowledgment of the differences between American and British English?

3. What does Mencken say newspaper reporters no longer "slobber" over?

4. The prudish reluctance to name what sort of diseases hindered proper preventative information?

5. What English word does the author of "Men and Manners" lament about the American re-signification?

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