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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

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) all speak in exactly the same way
(d) can be emulated

2. Languages around the world contain common ______________________.
(a) foundations
(b) verb tenses
(c) consonants
(d) vowels

3. In what American city do people speak with slurred words that make them almost impossible to understand?
(a) Cincinnati, Ohio
(b) Ann Arbor, Maryland
(c) Phoenix, Arizona
(d) Baltimore, Maryland

4. What does the English language's large vocabulary mean to users?
(a) More precise expression
(b) More vowels
(c) More letters of the alphabet
(d) More spelling words

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

6. In what country does the printing revolution take place?
(a) Wales
(b) Ireland
(c) France
(d) England

7. The English writing system developed from what?
(a) Cave drawings
(b) Etchings on leaves
(c) Pictographs
(d) Markings on trees

8. What historical occurrence is explored in Chapter 6?
(a) The Great Vowel Shift
(b) The Great Depression
(c) The Johnstown Flood
(d) The Kennedy Assassination

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

10. Chapter 7 addresses the _________________ examples of ways English is spoken throughout the world.
(a) Inaccurate
(b) Humorous
(c) Transitional
(d) Historic

11. Because of the event of #67, the works of which two authors are especially difficult to understand?
(a) Chaucer and Dante
(b) Chaucer and Hemingway
(c) Chaucer and Shakespeare
(d) Dante and Shakespeare

12. The author discusses the elements that English lacks but that ______________________________.
(a) Could stand improvement
(b) Really don't make a difference
(c) Other languages have
(d) Make it a superior language regardless

13. Who tends to invent new words in the present day?
(a) People in technology and the arts
(b) People in technology and religion
(c) People in technology and government
(d) People in religion and government

14. From which tribe does England get its name?
(a) The Engles
(b) The Englees
(c) The Angels
(d) The Angles

15. What combines with vowels to make pronunciation rules difficult to define?
(a) Cultural dialects
(b) Too many consonants
(c) Punctuation
(d) Complex spelling rules

Short Answer Questions

1. All English speakers can understand each other despite ______________________________.

2. What profession encourages expressions that make numbers and letters clearer when communicating by radio?

3. Language differences within a country are often ________________.

4. The differences between languages bring up questions about what?

5. During Norman rule, which words are appropriate for the upper class to use?

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