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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. Who proposed a generally accepted nomenclature for currency in 1785?
(a) Noah Webster.
(b) Thomas Jefferson.
(c) Richard Grant White.
(d) Gouverneur Morris.

2. Who protested the adoption of the broad "a" in an 1857 work entitled "The Autocrat at the Breakfast Table"?
(a) Noah Webster.
(b) Frank H. Vizetelly.
(c) Richard Meade Bache.
(d) Oliver Wendell Holmes.

3. What language does Mencken quote Sidney Low as saying is not taught to English youth?
(a) Greek.
(b) Russian.
(c) American.
(d) Latin.

4. Which Founding Father is said to have sought to establish a new American alphabet?
(a) Thomas Jefferson.
(b) Benjamin Franklin.
(c) John Hancock.
(d) George Washington.

5. What sound did Webster object to inserting in words such as "gradual" and "nature," before the "u"?
(a) T.
(b) Dh.
(c) Y.
(d) Ch.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is the author of "Dissertations on the English Language"?

2. What event does Mencken credit with strengthening the obfuscation of distinction between American and British English?

3. Which of the following did the African slaves NOT introduce to American English?

4. In what language did the American derivative "coyote" originate?

5. Mencken claims that Noah Webster contains less of the scientific inquirer and more of what?

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