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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 9, The New Englishes.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. The Puritans were most highly concentrated where?
(a) Northumbria.
(b) East Anglia.
(c) New Hampshire.
(d) Wessex.

2. What language did the Celts speak?
(a) Gaelic.
(b) Germanic.
(c) Entoarian.
(d) Esotian.

3. Who is the author of the novel Oscar and Lucinda?
(a) Jonathan Swift.
(b) Danielle Steele.
(c) Peter Carey.
(d) Mark Twain.

4. Thomas Macaulay was born in what year?
(a) 1901.
(b) 1600.
(c) 1795.
(d) 1800.

5. The English conquered and warred with the Irish for over how many years?
(a) 600.
(b) 500.
(c) 200.
(d) 800.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who published the Dictionary of the English Language in 1755?

2. Who wrote The American Language?

3. Which name prefix did the Scots originate?

4. When was the assassination of Archduke Ferdinand?

5. When did James I die?

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