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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What helps a listener and speaker to use the correct word when in doubt?
(a) Trial and error
(b) A friend
(c) A dictionary
(d) Context

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

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

5. What do the Asian languages have less of than other languages?
(a) sound-symbol connection
(b) vowels
(c) consonants
(d) syllables

Short Answer Questions

1. Who invades England in 1066?

2. Chapter 7 addresses the _________________ examples of ways English is spoken throughout the world.

3. What else impacts the pronunciation of some words?

4. In whose work can inconsistent spelling be found due to the event of #67?

5. Regional trends have common accent features but no speakers who _________________________________.

Short Essay Questions

1. What is the result of attempting to draw demarcations of accents throughout the U.S.?

2. What does the author say is the reason some English words are created?

3. What two religious scholars are responsible for documenting language in England?

4. What is so interesting about the way human speech has spread around the world?

5. What is the dynamic of countries with more than one language?

6. What is the proof of the power of the English language in the modern world?

7. How was the Cro-Magnon man able to supersede the Neanderthal man in human development?

8. Explain what the author means by the creation of language areas.

9. What irony does the author point out in Americans emulating British English?

10. What event prompted the usage of standardized spelling in England?

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