2. Who were two champions for the simplification of English spelling?
(a) Ben Franklin and Guttenberg
(b) Thomas Jefferson and Noah Webster
(c) Ben Franklin and Noah Webster
(d) Ben Franklin and John Adams

3. What brings some sort of uniformity to spelling and language?
(a) The Constitution
(b) The printing press
(c) Newspapers
(d) McGuffy's Reader

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

5. The author decides it is ______________ to divide the U.S. into distinct accents.
(a) futile
(b) fun
(c) frustrating
(d) easy

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

7. What happens when a group of native speakers dies out?
(a) The language lives on in documents
(b) The language lives on in verbal communications
(c) The language dies
(d) A new language is formed

8. From what do most languages derive?
(a) Indo-European language family
(b) Sign language
(c) South America
(d) Cro-Magnon utterances

9. During Norman rule, which words are appropriate for the upper class to use?
(a) Irish
(b) Danish
(c) French
(d) Italian

10. What can be spelled in a variety of ways?
(a) names
(b) colloquialisms
(c) adjectives
(d) adverbs

11. In whose work can inconsistent spelling be found due to the event of #67?
(a) Shakespeare
(b) Faulkner
(c) Dante
(d) Chaucer

12. According to the author, some words are formed out of __________________.
(a) misunderstandings
(b) guttural noises
(c) other words
(d) mistakes

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

14. Who establishes a large presence in Northern England in the year 850?
(a) The French
(b) The Danish Vikings
(c) The Romans
(d) The Russians

15. The author states that there are characteristics in the English language that ______________________________.
(a) are fundamental
(b) are lacking in other languages
(c) are intuitive
(d) are easy to learn