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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. English is a language of constant ___________________.
(a) beauty
(b) complexity
(c) change
(d) surprise
2. What is one of the organizations that has failed as a grammar regulatory force?
(a) Oxford University
(b) United Nations
(c) Harvard University
(d) Academie Francaise
3. British surnames are the product of confusing pronunciations and ____________________.
(a) colloquialisms
(b) accents
(c) word combinations
(d) spellings
4. Words that enter American and British vocabularies generally come from what country?
(a) France
(b) Italy
(c) England
(d) America
5. Many words that were once considered taboo are now considered to be ______________________.
(a) inappropriate
(b) slightly offensive
(c) vulgar
(d) quite innocent
Short Answer Questions
1. In what countries is English studied?
2. What country attempts to control language by its academic system instead of following social forces?
3. The author feels that the English-only movement is more about ______________________ than preservation and advancement.
4. The author discusses the process of development of the British _____________ from the Middle Ages to the present.
5. When did the English language go through many changes?
Short Essay Questions
1. What is the challenge of determining the actual number of words in the English language?
2. Explain the role of immigrants to North America on the evolution of the English language.
3. Name some less common word games.
4. In addition to English, what other languages have been proposed as international languages?
5. What has been the naming process for places in England and America?
6. What is the author's position on many spelling and grammar rules?
7. What is the background of Webster's Dictionary and the Oxford English Dictionary?
8. To what does the author attribute the misuse of English grammar?
9. How does the author explain the development of British and American surnames?
10. What is the correlation between tracing swear words and tracing the history of language overall?
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