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

2. What does Chomsky think are innate in children?
(a) Rhyming capabilities
(b) "Ground rules" that help them learn language
(c) The tendencies to be dyslexic
(d) Several language barriers

3. What is usually important to users of other languages that the English language expresses with one general category word?
(a) Acronyms
(b) Colloquialisms
(c) Slang
(d) Groups of words

4. When did the English language go through many changes?
(a) After the Bubonic Plague ravaged Europe
(b) When it moved to North America
(c) During the American Revolution
(d) After Viking invasions of England

5. English is a language of constant ___________________.
(a) beauty
(b) complexity
(c) surprise
(d) change

Short Answer Questions

1. In the English language, what has a range of possibilities not available in other languages?

2. Words that enter American and British vocabularies generally come from what country?

3. On what does a child's vocabulary rely?

4. According to the author what will happen when English comes into its own as a modern language of international importance?

5. What is common to most English speakers?

(see the answer key)

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