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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. Initially what percentage of Australians were English convicts?
(a) 99%.
(b) 10%.
(c) 40%.
(d) 87%.

2. What was a common form of passing language down from one generation to the next in Irish culture?
(a) Shamanic rites.
(b) Storytelling.
(c) Baptism.
(d) Written word.

3. Old English has barely how many Celtic words?
(a) 12.
(b) 10.
(c) 30.
(d) 20.

4. 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.

5. The culture of Ireland rose to a high point in what century?
(a) 12th.
(b) 10th.
(c) 14th.
(d) 6th.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which of the early Germanic tribes had speech that was Germanic and they lived Denmark?

2. How many Irish emigrated to the United States in the nineteenth century?

3. Ulster is composed of how many counties?

4. What British author of Gulliver's Travels is known for being a master of two styles of satire: the Horatian and Juvenalian styles?

5. In Chapter 2, The Mother Tongue, the authors claim that the horse and the what spread the English language and caused its divergence?

(see the answer key)

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