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

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

3. What element guides generational language?

4. English is a language of constant ___________________.

5. Chapter 15 addresses the history of what?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is the author's final position on the future of the English language?

2. One of the most interesting words created in North America was "O.K." What is the background behind this new word?

3. What is the origin of the crossword puzzle?

4. What is the challenge of determining the actual number of words in the English language?

5. Name some less common word games.

6. Explain the almost futile attempts to produce current English language dictionaries.

7. What is the author's opinion on who actually controls the English language?

8. What happens to the use of swear words as society becomes more cognizant of propriety?

9. What is the correlation between tracing swear words and tracing the history of language overall?

10. What impact has American English had on the British vocabulary?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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 2

What are the benefits that the English language offers its users? Take into account its significantly larger vocabulary and grammar complexities.

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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