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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 8, The Echoes of an English Voice.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What term refers to a member of the dark-skinned people who were the earliest inhabitants of Australia?
(a) Indians.
(b) Nintoona.
(c) Aborigine.
(d) Acatuna.

2. Linguists know that languages spoken by around how much of humanity came from a common Indo-European source?
(a) One fourth.
(b) One fifth.
(c) One third.
(d) One half.

3. When did the Angles, Saxons, and Jutes sail from Denmark and the German Coast into Britain?
(a) 300 A.D.
(b) 100 B.C.
(c) 449 A.D.
(d) 340 B.C.

4. By the turn of which century had English all but died out in Ireland?
(a) 16th.
(b) 17th.
(c) 20th.
(d) 19th.

5. What is the capital of New Zealand?
(a) Binghamshire.
(b) Oxford.
(c) Wellington.
(d) Sydney.

Short Answer Questions

1. Irish culture is a mixture of Celtic and what?

2. Who brought the English language to Britain, according to Chapter 2, The Mother Tongue?

3. When did Queen Victoria take the British crown?

4. In what decade did Australian English come to be of interest in other English speaking countries?

5. Who remain the most direct descendants of the Celts?

(see the answer key)

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