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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 3 Global Language.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What about the English language gives users greater range of expression?
(a) More letters of the alphabet
(b) Past and future tenses
(c) More vowel sounds
(d) Active and passive voices

2. Why could the Neanderthals not keep up with the Cro-Magnons?
(a) They could not run as fast
(b) Their brains were not as big
(c) They did not have fire
(d) They couldn't communicate with the same complexity

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

4. The author finds that many languages _________________________.
(a) die out eventually
(b) have many similarities
(c) are difficult to learn
(d) overlap geographically

5. The differences between languages bring up questions about what?
(a) Their purpose
(b) Their ease of use
(c) Their clarity
(d) Their origins and place within the human story

Short Answer Questions

1. The author discusses the elements that English lacks but that ______________________________.

2. How do some linguists think that children learn their languages?

3. Physical communication strategies include proximity between speakers, hand gestures and ______________________.

4. Language has the ability to do what?

5. What is onomatopoeia?

(see the answer key)

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