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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 language is associated with the Irish people?
(a) Latin.
(b) Welsh.
(c) Gaelic.
(d) Norse.

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

3. Who brought the English language to Britain, according to Chapter 2, The Mother Tongue?
(a) Celts.
(b) Roman tribes.
(c) Asian tribes.
(d) Germanic tribes.

4. Newfoundland was founded in what year?
(a) 1612.
(b) 1714.
(c) 1595.
(d) 1588.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. The English language was formed through how many invasions?

2. What dialect is associated with the lower classes in England?

3. The denial of Afrikaans in South Africa sparked an explosive riot in what year?

4. What term refers to a member of the dark-skinned people who were the earliest inhabitants of Australia?

5. Initially what percentage of Australians were English convicts?

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