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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 13 Names.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who are often responsible for coining new words?
(a) Scholars
(b) Professors
(c) Writers
(d) Mothers

2. What is phonology?
(a) A fraud detector
(b) Telephone operator skills
(c) A phonograph history
(d) A sound system for a language

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

4. Which words are appropriate for the common people to use?
(a) Anglo-Saxon
(b) French
(c) Irish
(d) Danish

5. The pronunciations of many words in America reflect what speakers think British speakers say and _______________________.
(a) ignores them
(b) tries to do the opposite
(c) attempts to imitate them
(d) rejects them outright

Short Answer Questions

1. What do the British borrow from American English?

2. In what American city do people speak with slurred words that make them almost impossible to understand?

3. The English language is left to ___________ and public figures.

4. What does Chomsky think are innate in children?

5. British surnames are the product of confusing pronunciations and ____________________.

(see the answer key)

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