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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 4 The First Thousand Years.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Physical communication strategies include proximity between speakers, hand gestures and ______________________.
(a) utterances
(b) head movements
(c) facial expression
(d) tics

3. What is often cited as an equalizing force in English?
(a) Sentence structure
(b) The lack of grammatical gender
(c) Latin derivatives
(d) Tenses

4. Who establishes a large presence in Northern England in the year 850?
(a) The French
(b) The Russians
(c) The Romans
(d) The Danish Vikings

5. The Celts are strongly influenced by which culture?
(a) Germanic
(b) French
(c) Norwegian
(d) Roman

Short Answer Questions

1. For what is the Venerable Bede famous?

2. What is onomatopoeia?

3. The author states that there are characteristics in the English language that ______________________________.

4. In addition to linguistic differences in languages, there are also ________________________.

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

(see the answer key)

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