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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 7 Varieties of English.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Who invades England in 1066?
(a) The French
(b) The Norwegians
(c) The Romans
(d) The Normans

3. Regional trends have common accent features but no speakers who _________________________________.
(a) can emulate someone else
(b) all speak in exactly the same way
(c) can be emulated
(d) can teach proper English

4. Many English speakers promote the particular variety of English that they speak while ____________________ the dialects of speakers from other regions.
(a) ridiculing
(b) mimicking
(c) trying
(d) studying

5. Who tries to organize information about how people speak?
(a) Historians
(b) Professors
(c) Linguists
(d) Speech therapists

Short Answer Questions

1. What combines with vowels to make pronunciation rules difficult to define?

2. What does the English language's large vocabulary mean to users?

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

4. Language issues tend to be __________________.

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

(see the answer key)

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