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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 11 Old World New World.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What country attempts to control language by its academic system instead of following social forces?
(a) Italy
(b) France
(c) United States
(d) England

2. According to the author, what is easy or difficult depending on the point of view?
(a) Phonics
(b) Pictographs
(c) Colloquialisms
(d) Spelling in English

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

4. What element guides generational language?
(a) Colloquialisms
(b) Pop culture
(c) Regionalism
(d) Superiority

5. What is one of the organizations that has failed as a grammar regulatory force?
(a) United Nations
(b) Academie Francaise
(c) Oxford University
(d) Harvard University

Short Answer Questions

1. How do the British typically view American pronunciation and vocabulary?

2. Chapter 6 addresses the changing pronunciation of which language over time?

3. What can make learning English unnecessarily difficult?

4. Who is the Venerable Bede?

5. Regional trends have common accent features but no speakers who _________________________________.

(see the answer key)

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