Question
Choose the best answer.
The definition of dialect is ________.
a language form that varies from the dominant regional language
the dominant language of a country
the obsolete languages in a country only known orally
2) Choose the best answer.
The definition of ethnicity is ________.
a shared cultural heritage originating from a common ancestry, a nation, or a cultural tradition
the economic and educational background of people
being of people who speak the same language in their own country
3) Choose the best answer.
Today’s English mainly comes from _________.
Hispanic immigrants
German settlers
British settlers
4) Choose the best answer.
Words such as impala, gumbo, and safari originate from ________.
Latin
African languages
Hispanic languages
5) Choose the best answer.
Words such as anime, karaoke, sushi, teriyaki, and tofu originate from _________.
Hispanic languages
African languages
Japanese
6) Choose the best answer.
Different dialects use different words and different _________.
languages
contexts
pronunciations
Chapter one: The Impetus and the Method
1At the very outset we had difficulty in gaining admission to any all-Italian house. In the tenements where several rooms were to be had, the Italian real-estate agents eyed us with suspicion and averred solemnly that they were all full, even to the roof. This they asserted, notwithstanding empty apartments to be seen from the street and “Rooms to Let” signs without number. In the boarding houses we were met with a very cold reception even before it was known what we wanted. In the Italian hotels it was the same way with the exception of one south of Washington Square, and there the proprietor kindly offered to let us in at twice the ordinary price, according to the rates tacked on the room doors. At last, however, we came to the domicile of the Chevalier Celestin Tonella. Here we found our haven.
2It was some time after we were settled before we learned that we were under the roof of a nobleman. If we had been familiar with the nice distinctions of Italian caste, however, we should have known it instantly. The three houses Nos. 141, 145, 147 West Houston Street, entered by the door of No. 147, seemed to us very little different from many of the other tenements in which we had been, and indeed they were not. The difference all lay in the master not in the mansion. If I had known before paying my rent in advance that my landlord had a title, I should have demurred, thinking that in his house there would be life a little too high in grade for the real Italian quarter; but before I knew the Chevalier’s station, I had learned that we were in the proper element and surrounded by the very atmosphere we sought, though the same at meal times would have almost killed a strong man in his prime.
3Just before we gained admittance to the desired quarters we were in the office of a real-estate man who has an exclusively Italian custom in the lower West Side quarter, renting to people of his own race and tongue, houses owned by wealthy people up-town. When he had refused to give us an opportunity at anything on his lists I said to him:
4“See here. We have been hunting rooms all day. We have been frustrated from Mulberry Street to Fifteenth. I have got money and can give references, but nobody seems to care about either. What is the matter? Why can we not get into an Italian house?”
5“Scoose me, mister, bot wye youse want to?”
6“We want to live with Italians in order to learn to speak Italian properly.”
7“Yes, all ri—ght. I don’ know wye.” A shrug of the shoulders and a side glance with dropped eyes. “Mebbe Eyetayun peoples sink-a youse try to fin’ a out somesings, mebbe don’ a want somebodys fin’ youse.
8This last was said with a bitterness which showed clearly how well the Italians understand the tolerant, semi-contemptuous regard of Americans towards them and how keenly they resent it. I understood at once how and why they suspected us because we, who were obviously “Americans proper” as they nicely express the difference between the native and imported American, desired to come and make our home among them. Only a knowledge that the persons are still living and a wholesome respect for the libel law prevent me from telling how well founded were the suspicions among the Italians of the “Americans proper” who lived about us later.
9Thus, to begin with we were met by the barrier of suspicion and misunderstanding raised against us by all our neighbors. We had to overcome it carefully or do our work in spite of it.
____________________________________________________________________________
Answer the following questions.
7) Read the excerpt from Imported Americans by Broughton Brandenburg. Determine the word meanings by using the context and a dictionary resource, if necessary. Then, choose the best answer.
Averred means _________.
stated to be the case
answered quickly
lied with conviction
8) Read the excerpt from Imported Americans by Broughton Brandenburg. Determine the word meanings by using the context and a dictionary resource, if necessary. Then, choose the best answer.
In the underlined sentence in paragraph 1, the author is suggesting _________.
agents were truthful
agents were lying
the tenements are full
9) Read the excerpt from Imported Americans by Broughton Brandenburg. Determine the word meanings by using the context and a dictionary resource, if necessary. Then, choose the best answer.
How is the author using the word, haven?
as a wonderful, special place
as an ocean inlet
ironically
10) Read the excerpt from Imported Americans by Broughton Brandenburg. Determine the word meanings by using the context and a dictionary resource, if necessary. Then, choose the best answer.
Caste means _________.
names
constructions
social positions
11) Read the excerpt from Imported Americans by Broughton Brandenburg. Determine the word meanings by using the context and a dictionary resource, if necessary. Then, choose the best answer.
Demurred means _________.
objected
been confused concerning
been happy about
12) Read the excerpt from Imported Americans by Broughton Brandenburg. Determine the word meanings by using the context and a dictionary resource, if necessary. Then, choose the best answer.
Paragraphs 5–7 have examples of _________.
the Russian language
the Italian language
Italian-American dialect
13) Read the excerpt from Imported Americans by Broughton Brandenburg. Determine the word meanings by using the context and a dictionary resource, if necessary. Then, choose the best answer.
In paragraph 8, the author is suggesting that Italians know that Americans have _________ feelings toward them.
tolerant
favorable
racist
Chapter Two: Life in a New York Italian Tenement
10Our room was about seven feet wide and twelve long. It was half of a room of ordinary size that had been cut nicely in two by a partition, and had a sort of small extension at the back that looked out on the rear of the house. It was barely possible to get by the bed in order to pass from the door to the rear window. The bed itself, while not being a geometrical point, had neither length, breadth, nor thickness. In one corner was a small cook-stove that should have been under pension. There was a small table in the tiny extension, covered with a dark-patterned piece of oilcloth. A careful inspection of it showed me that dark oilcloth has certain advantages over light. A kerosene lamp with a discouragingly short wick stood on an imitation marble mantelpiece that was a relic of the days of the old mansion’s former glory.
11We contrived to get one steamer trunk under the bed, and as soon as we could sort out articles of essential wear, the others drifted to that place of uncertainty called “storage.”
12Some little time after we had entered the house we were able to get a room twice the size on the top floor, and we contrived to dispose ourselves with some degree of comfort. Aside from the size and the addition of a good bed, the room and furnishings of our second chamber agreed with the first.
13During the time we lived there we dressed in such a manner as not to attract the attention of the people about us to the fact that we were not of them, only keeping with us apparel for use when we indulged ourselves in an evening’s relaxation from the hard life and stole away up-town for a bite of something good to eat and the cheer of the voices of friends speaking unadulterated English.
14The first night we were in the house we were very weary with the operation of shifting bases and change of station in life, and, finding it almost impossible to read by the light of the lamp, we sought repose about ten o’clock; but just about that time from the floor below us, where we could hear the babel of the voices of men and women, as it were a family party or something of the sort, there began to come a series of vocal explosions. It seemed to be two or more men shouting single words at each other in concert. They enunciated with great energy, at first in a repressed sort of way, but after ten or fifteen words their voices rose to an alarming pitch. Then would come a pause filled in with laughter and chatter, and once more the word-slinging contest would begin. So fiercely were the words expelled that for a long time we could not tell what they were. At last we made out “sei” and “otto,” and as it was impossible to go to sleep with so lively a social function going on below, I got up, lit the lamp and took up our Italian books. A moment’s consultation of the books and a little listening showed us that they were counting, or at least hurling numbers at random at each other. It was inexplicable to us, but it was our first glance into the inside of Italian quarter life.
____________________________________________________________________________
Answer the following questions.
14) Read the excerpt from Imported Americans by Broughton Brandenburg. Determine the word meanings by using the context and a dictionary resource, if necessary. Then, choose the best answer.
Paragraph 10 shows that _________.
the author and his wife were uncomfortable
the author was used to fine furnishings
the author was used to fine furnishings, and the author and his wife were uncomfortable
15) Read the excerpt from Imported Americans by Broughton Brandenburg. Determine the word meanings by using the context and a dictionary resource, if necessary. Then, choose the best answer.
Paragraph 13 shows that the author and his wife ________.
suffered as the Italians did
were self-sufficient and wealthy
did not dress shabby among the Italians
16) Read the excerpt from Imported Americans by Broughton Brandenburg. Determine the word meanings by using the context and a dictionary resource, if necessary. Then, choose the best answer.
The descriptions in paragraph 14 show that ________.
the author and his wife were angry at each other
the author and his wife wanted to join the party
the Italians are entertaining themselves with a game
The definition of dialect is ________.
a language form that varies from the dominant regional language
the dominant language of a country
the obsolete languages in a country only known orally
2) Choose the best answer.
The definition of ethnicity is ________.
a shared cultural heritage originating from a common ancestry, a nation, or a cultural tradition
the economic and educational background of people
being of people who speak the same language in their own country
3) Choose the best answer.
Today’s English mainly comes from _________.
Hispanic immigrants
German settlers
British settlers
4) Choose the best answer.
Words such as impala, gumbo, and safari originate from ________.
Latin
African languages
Hispanic languages
5) Choose the best answer.
Words such as anime, karaoke, sushi, teriyaki, and tofu originate from _________.
Hispanic languages
African languages
Japanese
6) Choose the best answer.
Different dialects use different words and different _________.
languages
contexts
pronunciations
Chapter one: The Impetus and the Method
1At the very outset we had difficulty in gaining admission to any all-Italian house. In the tenements where several rooms were to be had, the Italian real-estate agents eyed us with suspicion and averred solemnly that they were all full, even to the roof. This they asserted, notwithstanding empty apartments to be seen from the street and “Rooms to Let” signs without number. In the boarding houses we were met with a very cold reception even before it was known what we wanted. In the Italian hotels it was the same way with the exception of one south of Washington Square, and there the proprietor kindly offered to let us in at twice the ordinary price, according to the rates tacked on the room doors. At last, however, we came to the domicile of the Chevalier Celestin Tonella. Here we found our haven.
2It was some time after we were settled before we learned that we were under the roof of a nobleman. If we had been familiar with the nice distinctions of Italian caste, however, we should have known it instantly. The three houses Nos. 141, 145, 147 West Houston Street, entered by the door of No. 147, seemed to us very little different from many of the other tenements in which we had been, and indeed they were not. The difference all lay in the master not in the mansion. If I had known before paying my rent in advance that my landlord had a title, I should have demurred, thinking that in his house there would be life a little too high in grade for the real Italian quarter; but before I knew the Chevalier’s station, I had learned that we were in the proper element and surrounded by the very atmosphere we sought, though the same at meal times would have almost killed a strong man in his prime.
3Just before we gained admittance to the desired quarters we were in the office of a real-estate man who has an exclusively Italian custom in the lower West Side quarter, renting to people of his own race and tongue, houses owned by wealthy people up-town. When he had refused to give us an opportunity at anything on his lists I said to him:
4“See here. We have been hunting rooms all day. We have been frustrated from Mulberry Street to Fifteenth. I have got money and can give references, but nobody seems to care about either. What is the matter? Why can we not get into an Italian house?”
5“Scoose me, mister, bot wye youse want to?”
6“We want to live with Italians in order to learn to speak Italian properly.”
7“Yes, all ri—ght. I don’ know wye.” A shrug of the shoulders and a side glance with dropped eyes. “Mebbe Eyetayun peoples sink-a youse try to fin’ a out somesings, mebbe don’ a want somebodys fin’ youse.
8This last was said with a bitterness which showed clearly how well the Italians understand the tolerant, semi-contemptuous regard of Americans towards them and how keenly they resent it. I understood at once how and why they suspected us because we, who were obviously “Americans proper” as they nicely express the difference between the native and imported American, desired to come and make our home among them. Only a knowledge that the persons are still living and a wholesome respect for the libel law prevent me from telling how well founded were the suspicions among the Italians of the “Americans proper” who lived about us later.
9Thus, to begin with we were met by the barrier of suspicion and misunderstanding raised against us by all our neighbors. We had to overcome it carefully or do our work in spite of it.
____________________________________________________________________________
Answer the following questions.
7) Read the excerpt from Imported Americans by Broughton Brandenburg. Determine the word meanings by using the context and a dictionary resource, if necessary. Then, choose the best answer.
Averred means _________.
stated to be the case
answered quickly
lied with conviction
8) Read the excerpt from Imported Americans by Broughton Brandenburg. Determine the word meanings by using the context and a dictionary resource, if necessary. Then, choose the best answer.
In the underlined sentence in paragraph 1, the author is suggesting _________.
agents were truthful
agents were lying
the tenements are full
9) Read the excerpt from Imported Americans by Broughton Brandenburg. Determine the word meanings by using the context and a dictionary resource, if necessary. Then, choose the best answer.
How is the author using the word, haven?
as a wonderful, special place
as an ocean inlet
ironically
10) Read the excerpt from Imported Americans by Broughton Brandenburg. Determine the word meanings by using the context and a dictionary resource, if necessary. Then, choose the best answer.
Caste means _________.
names
constructions
social positions
11) Read the excerpt from Imported Americans by Broughton Brandenburg. Determine the word meanings by using the context and a dictionary resource, if necessary. Then, choose the best answer.
Demurred means _________.
objected
been confused concerning
been happy about
12) Read the excerpt from Imported Americans by Broughton Brandenburg. Determine the word meanings by using the context and a dictionary resource, if necessary. Then, choose the best answer.
Paragraphs 5–7 have examples of _________.
the Russian language
the Italian language
Italian-American dialect
13) Read the excerpt from Imported Americans by Broughton Brandenburg. Determine the word meanings by using the context and a dictionary resource, if necessary. Then, choose the best answer.
In paragraph 8, the author is suggesting that Italians know that Americans have _________ feelings toward them.
tolerant
favorable
racist
Chapter Two: Life in a New York Italian Tenement
10Our room was about seven feet wide and twelve long. It was half of a room of ordinary size that had been cut nicely in two by a partition, and had a sort of small extension at the back that looked out on the rear of the house. It was barely possible to get by the bed in order to pass from the door to the rear window. The bed itself, while not being a geometrical point, had neither length, breadth, nor thickness. In one corner was a small cook-stove that should have been under pension. There was a small table in the tiny extension, covered with a dark-patterned piece of oilcloth. A careful inspection of it showed me that dark oilcloth has certain advantages over light. A kerosene lamp with a discouragingly short wick stood on an imitation marble mantelpiece that was a relic of the days of the old mansion’s former glory.
11We contrived to get one steamer trunk under the bed, and as soon as we could sort out articles of essential wear, the others drifted to that place of uncertainty called “storage.”
12Some little time after we had entered the house we were able to get a room twice the size on the top floor, and we contrived to dispose ourselves with some degree of comfort. Aside from the size and the addition of a good bed, the room and furnishings of our second chamber agreed with the first.
13During the time we lived there we dressed in such a manner as not to attract the attention of the people about us to the fact that we were not of them, only keeping with us apparel for use when we indulged ourselves in an evening’s relaxation from the hard life and stole away up-town for a bite of something good to eat and the cheer of the voices of friends speaking unadulterated English.
14The first night we were in the house we were very weary with the operation of shifting bases and change of station in life, and, finding it almost impossible to read by the light of the lamp, we sought repose about ten o’clock; but just about that time from the floor below us, where we could hear the babel of the voices of men and women, as it were a family party or something of the sort, there began to come a series of vocal explosions. It seemed to be two or more men shouting single words at each other in concert. They enunciated with great energy, at first in a repressed sort of way, but after ten or fifteen words their voices rose to an alarming pitch. Then would come a pause filled in with laughter and chatter, and once more the word-slinging contest would begin. So fiercely were the words expelled that for a long time we could not tell what they were. At last we made out “sei” and “otto,” and as it was impossible to go to sleep with so lively a social function going on below, I got up, lit the lamp and took up our Italian books. A moment’s consultation of the books and a little listening showed us that they were counting, or at least hurling numbers at random at each other. It was inexplicable to us, but it was our first glance into the inside of Italian quarter life.
____________________________________________________________________________
Answer the following questions.
14) Read the excerpt from Imported Americans by Broughton Brandenburg. Determine the word meanings by using the context and a dictionary resource, if necessary. Then, choose the best answer.
Paragraph 10 shows that _________.
the author and his wife were uncomfortable
the author was used to fine furnishings
the author was used to fine furnishings, and the author and his wife were uncomfortable
15) Read the excerpt from Imported Americans by Broughton Brandenburg. Determine the word meanings by using the context and a dictionary resource, if necessary. Then, choose the best answer.
Paragraph 13 shows that the author and his wife ________.
suffered as the Italians did
were self-sufficient and wealthy
did not dress shabby among the Italians
16) Read the excerpt from Imported Americans by Broughton Brandenburg. Determine the word meanings by using the context and a dictionary resource, if necessary. Then, choose the best answer.
The descriptions in paragraph 14 show that ________.
the author and his wife were angry at each other
the author and his wife wanted to join the party
the Italians are entertaining themselves with a game
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Here are the best answers to each of your questions based on the provided information:
1. The definition of dialect is **a language form that varies from the dominant regional language**.
2. The definition of ethnicity is **a shared cultural heritage originating from a common ancestry, a nation, or a cultural tradition**.
3. Today’s English mainly comes from **British settlers**.
4. Words such as impala, gumbo, and safari originate from **African languages**.
5. Words such as anime, karaoke, sushi, teriyaki, and tofu originate from **Japanese**.
6. Different dialects use different words and different **pronunciations**.
7. Averred means **stated to be the case**.
8. In the underlined sentence in paragraph 1, the author is suggesting **agents were lying**.
9. How is the author using the word, haven? **as a wonderful, special place**.
10. Caste means **social positions**.
11. Demurred means **objected**.
12. Paragraphs 5–7 have examples of **Italian-American dialect**.
13. In paragraph 8, the author is suggesting that Italians know that Americans have **racist** feelings toward them.
14. Paragraph 10 shows that **the author was used to fine furnishings, and the author and his wife were uncomfortable**.
15. Paragraph 13 shows that the author and his wife **did not dress shabby among the Italians**.
16. The descriptions in paragraph 14 show that **the Italians are entertaining themselves with a game**.
1. The definition of dialect is **a language form that varies from the dominant regional language**.
2. The definition of ethnicity is **a shared cultural heritage originating from a common ancestry, a nation, or a cultural tradition**.
3. Today’s English mainly comes from **British settlers**.
4. Words such as impala, gumbo, and safari originate from **African languages**.
5. Words such as anime, karaoke, sushi, teriyaki, and tofu originate from **Japanese**.
6. Different dialects use different words and different **pronunciations**.
7. Averred means **stated to be the case**.
8. In the underlined sentence in paragraph 1, the author is suggesting **agents were lying**.
9. How is the author using the word, haven? **as a wonderful, special place**.
10. Caste means **social positions**.
11. Demurred means **objected**.
12. Paragraphs 5–7 have examples of **Italian-American dialect**.
13. In paragraph 8, the author is suggesting that Italians know that Americans have **racist** feelings toward them.
14. Paragraph 10 shows that **the author was used to fine furnishings, and the author and his wife were uncomfortable**.
15. Paragraph 13 shows that the author and his wife **did not dress shabby among the Italians**.
16. The descriptions in paragraph 14 show that **the Italians are entertaining themselves with a game**.