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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. Who is the Venerable Bede?
(a) A monk
(b) A priest
(c) A bishop
(d) A rabbi

2. In whose work can inconsistent spelling be found due to the event of #67?
(a) Faulkner
(b) Shakespeare
(c) Chaucer
(d) Dante

3. Who is Noam Chomsky?
(a) A French archaeologist
(b) A Russian writer
(c) An American linguist
(d) A British psychologist

4. What language and culture does the answer to #44 bring to England?
(a) French
(b) Danish
(c) Spanish
(d) Irish

5. English cannot be confined to arbitrary rules or ____________________.
(a) colloquialisms
(b) experts
(c) authority
(d) regionalism

Short Answer Questions

1. English is a language of constant ___________________.

2. What is common to most English speakers?

3. Who establishes a large presence in Northern England in the year 850?

4. What profession encourages expressions that make numbers and letters clearer when communicating by radio?

5. What else impacts the pronunciation of some words?

(see the answer key)

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