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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 word refers to a process of conversion of verbal or written elements of any other language into a more comprehensible English form for an English speaker or to become English in form or character?
(a) Literacy.
(b) Anglicisation.
(c) Englishation.
(d) Modernization.

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

3. The English language was formed through how many invasions?
(a) 5.
(b) 4.
(c) 3.
(d) 2.

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

5. What word carried over from Cockney to Australian English?
(a) Bro.
(b) Mate.
(c) Howdy.
(d) Ello.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. Julius Caesar and his armies conquered Britain when?

4. What ship did James Cook sail to Queensland?

5. By the turn of which century had English all but died out in Ireland?

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