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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. In what year did the English Reformation begin?
(a) 1534.
(b) 1598.
(c) 1601.
(d) 1555.

2. When did the Romans withdraw from Britain?
(a) 520 A.D.
(b) 210 A.D.
(c) 110 A.D.
(d) 410 A.D.

3. The Anglo-Saxon language received a major boost when Christianity brought an enormous Latin vocabulary starting in what year?
(a) 283 B.C.
(b) 238 A.D.
(c) 359 A.D.
(d) 597 A.D.

4. By what year were nearly half of the English literate, according to Chapter 3, A Muse of Fire?
(a) 1500.
(b) 1600.
(c) 1550.
(d) 1400.

5. What do the authors claim denote information about a speaker's life and career and explain community values?
(a) Styles.
(b) Vocabularies.
(c) Languages.
(d) Accents.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is an honorific name given to those American Loyalists who resettled in British North America and other British Colonies as an act of fealty to King George III after the British defeat in the American Revolutionary War?

2. What was the first English-speaking official colony in North America?

3. When was the assassination of Archduke Ferdinand?

4. When did the British and East India Company establish outposts in India?

5. What was the first successful English settlement on the mainland of North America?

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