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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. American names adapt and change to suit _______________________ pronunciation and spelling patterns.
(a) British
(b) Celtic
(c) American
(d) Spanish

2. Why are the speakers in #140 becoming a minority?
(a) Because of the financial investment necessary to study
(b) Because of the limited applications for the language
(c) Because of the interest in studying English around the world
(d) Because of the difficulty in learning the language

3. In what year was the crossword puzzle invented?
(a) 1889
(b) 1913
(c) 1945
(d) 1965

4. What did North American immigrants do with their native languages?
(a) They held to them steadfastly
(b) They abandoned them
(c) They modified them radically
(d) They modified them somewhat

5. What type of names go through an adaptive period to reach worldwide markets?
(a) Commercial
(b) Financial
(c) Political
(d) Publishing

6. Original names from _______________ or Native American times have slowly shifted in spelling and pronunciation.
(a) Celtic
(b) British
(c) Latin
(d) Spanish

7. Which country is used as an example of the difficulties of international communication?
(a) Japan
(b) Germany
(c) Russia
(d) Canada

8. What is the dictionary that follows Webster's forty years later?
(a) Mensa English Dictionary
(b) Franklin's English Dictionary
(c) Harvard English Dictionary
(d) Oxford English Dictionary

9. Which two languages have found some purpose in international communications?
(a) Seaspeak and Chinese
(b) Esperanto and Volapuk
(c) Seaspeak and Esperanto
(d) Seaspeak and English

10. What can be misused even by experts on the topic?
(a) Punctuation
(b) Synonyms
(c) English grammar
(d) Spelling

11. English is the language of _____________________.
(a) the people who speak it
(b) civility
(c) diplomacy
(d) love

12. Historians show real _______________ by piecing together a record of the human community without definitive proof.
(a) creativity
(b) confidence
(c) assertiveness
(d) dishonesty

13. Which speakers are becoming a minority of single-language users around the world?
(a) Italian speakers
(b) German speakers
(c) English speakers
(d) French speakers

14. British pronunciation and vocabulary is generally viewed to have high ________________ in North America.
(a) recognition
(b) preference
(c) prestige
(d) understandability

15. What is the second word game described by the author in Chapter 15?
(a) Scrabble
(b) Sudoku
(c) Monopoly
(d) Yahtzee

Short Answer Questions

1. How many words did Noah Webster's dictionary contain to surpass the one mentioned in #113?

2. The works of which author show the development of religious curses and expletives?

3. What is the result of the shift mentioned in #150?

4. What has been added to the British vocabulary in spite of academic protests?

5. From whom did North American settlers borrow words?

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