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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 9.10.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. As what part of speech does vulgar American consider the word "self" within the spirit of the language?
(a) A noun.
(b) An adjective.
(c) A verb.
(d) An adverb.

2. What language does the formalism of English grammarians come from?
(a) Latin.
(b) French.
(c) Spanish.
(d) German.

3. How many pages in "The King's English" are dedicated to explaining the distinction between "will" and "shall"?
(a) 0.
(b) 15.
(c) 20.
(d) 30.

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) Jew/Hebrew.
(b) Latino/Hispanic.
(c) Black/African American.
(d) White/Caucasian.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. In what location does Mencken say both the American and English orthographies flourish side by side?

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

3. 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?

4. Who protested the adoption of the broad "a" in an 1857 work entitled "The Autocrat at the Breakfast Table"?

5. According to Mencken, how do the English pronounce "been?"

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