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

2. Irish culture is a mixture of Celtic and what?
(a) East Indian.
(b) New World.
(c) Germanic.
(d) Anglo-Saxon.

3. In Chapter 2, The Mother Tongue, the authors claim that the horse and the what spread the English language and caused its divergence?
(a) Money.
(b) Poetry.
(c) Wheel.
(d) Fire.

4. What area of London was largely flattened in World War II?
(a) North End.
(b) South End.
(c) West End.
(d) East End.

5. What ship did James Cook sail to Queensland?
(a) The British General.
(b) The Queen Mary.
(c) The East India Company.
(d) The Endeavor.

Short Answer Questions

1. The Anglo-Saxon language received a major boost when Christianity brought an enormous Latin vocabulary starting in what year?

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

3. Initially what percentage of Australians were English convicts?

4. Ulster is composed of how many counties?

5. What was a common form of passing language down from one generation to the next in Irish culture?

(see the answer key)

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