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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. How can English be particularly complex for non-native English speakers?

2. What can be spelled in a variety of ways?

3. What historical occurrence is explored in Chapter 6?

4. In what time period does the event from #67 occur?

5. When does modern English begin to emerge?

Short Essay Questions

1. What was the Great Vowel Shift?

2. Why is learning the English language considered a large industry in the world?

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

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

5. Explain how the language of one people can can change over time.

6. Finally, what is the fourth method of explaining where words come from?

7. How did the English language evolve in the British Isles or what is now known as the United Kingdom?

8. In what way does the author think varieties of English are influenced by social reasons?

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

10. How does the English language compare with the development and growth of other global languages?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Building on language foundations, human speech spread throughout the world. Explain some of the commonalities and distinctions that mark the evolution of the English language.

Essay Topic 2

The regional differences and flux of the English language provided opportunities as well as challenges for English writers like Chaucer and Shakespeare. Explain why writers such as these could invent new words and essentially create a new English language.

Essay Topic 3

What was the impact of American immigrants to the English language? Take into account surnames, place names, and words assimilated into the American lexicography.

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