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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Why do other languages borrow English words and expressions?
(a) To become more popular
(b) To become more international
(c) To illustrate the conditions of modern life
(d) To become trendier

3. What country attempts to control language by its academic system instead of following social forces?
(a) France
(b) England
(c) Italy
(d) United States

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

5. Which of the following languages has not been proposed as an international language?
(a) Volapuk
(b) Esperanto
(c) Chinese
(d) Seaspeak

6. The works of which author show the development of religious curses and expletives?
(a) Hemingway
(b) T.S. Eliot
(c) Dante
(d) Shakespeare

7. In what year is the dictionary mentioned in #113 printed?
(a) 1563
(b) 1492
(c) 1776
(d) 1755

8. Who invented the crossword puzzle?
(a) A university professor
(b) A nurse
(c) A second grade teacher
(d) An American newspaper editor

9. Other than America and England, what country speaks English primarily?
(a) Ireland
(b) Wales
(c) Finland
(d) Australia

10. What do the British borrow from American English?
(a) grammatical styles and word usages
(b) street slang
(c) ebonics
(d) phonics

11. According to the author, the English language will __________ as it has throughout history.
(a) Grow
(b) Dominate
(c) Mutate
(d) Adapt

12. What is the result of the shift mentioned in #150?
(a) The dictionary cannot keep up with the changes
(b) New words have to be invented
(c) Modern names look or are spelled in contrast to original meanings
(d) The words are dropped from everyday use

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

14. Translations between English and ______________ are particularly difficult.
(a) Italian
(b) Japanese
(c) Chinese
(d) German

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What marketing challenge must companies address when considering working abroad?

2. The author feels that the English-only movement is more about ______________________ than preservation and advancement.

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

4. Original names from _______________ or Native American times have slowly shifted in spelling and pronunciation.

5. What has prompted the English-only movement in the U.S.?

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