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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 9 Good English and Bad.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. The English language is left to ___________ and public figures.
(a) academic
(b) entertainment
(c) anthropologists
(d) scientific

2. What type of languages are Chinese and Japanese
(a) Ebonic
(b) Syllabic
(c) Pictographic
(d) Phonetic

3. Because of the event of #67, the works of which two authors are especially difficult to understand?
(a) Chaucer and Shakespeare
(b) Chaucer and Dante
(c) Dante and Shakespeare
(d) Chaucer and Hemingway

4. The English writing system developed from what?
(a) Markings on trees
(b) Cave drawings
(c) Pictographs
(d) Etchings on leaves

5. What does Chomsky think are innate in children?
(a) "Ground rules" that help them learn language
(b) Several language barriers
(c) Rhyming capabilities
(d) The tendencies to be dyslexic

Short Answer Questions

1. What do the Asian languages have less of than other languages?

2. What is one of the organizations that has failed as a grammar regulatory force?

3. What can be spelled in a variety of ways?

4. What country attempts to control language by its academic system instead of following social forces?

5. When does modern English begin to emerge?

(see the answer key)

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