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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. What American writer does Mencken claim likely inspired envy in British writers?
(a) Fowler.
(b) Poe.
(c) Irving.
(d) Griswold.

2. Which of the following groups of immigrants does Mencken claim have a profound effect on not only the American vocabulary, but also its pronunciation and idiom?
(a) Italian.
(b) Scottish.
(c) Danish.
(d) Irish.

3. From what language does the English word "moose" come?
(a) Italian.
(b) Cherokee.
(c) English.
(d) Algonquin.

4. What English word does the author of "Men and Manners" lament about the American re-signification?
(a) Buttock.
(b) College.
(c) Missionary.
(d) Clever.

5. What notable author was the first Englishman to carry Americanisms successfully back to his home?
(a) Joseph Conrad.
(b) Charles Dickens.
(c) Cleveland Coxe.
(d) G.K. Chesterton.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Mencken describes the American language as having a "democratic enmity" to all what, in the beginning of Chapter 6.1?

3. What is the principal reason Mencken states that the English language has not greatly diverged since the foundation of the United States of America?

4. What country's works dominated the reading habits of the American colonists in the latter 18th century?

5. Which of the following was not used as a substitute for the once indecent term, for highly refined ears, "bull"?

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