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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. Who is listed as the Executive Producer of the television series The Story of English?
(a) Anderson Williams.
(b) Robert MacNeil.
(c) Robert McCrum.
(d) William Cran.

2. Approximately how many words are in the English language?
(a) 200,000.
(b) 1,000,000.
(c) 100,000.
(d) 500,000.

3. What is the current population of Jamaica?
(a) 5 million.
(b) 2.8 million.
(c) 3.2 million.
(d) 6.4 million.

4. What is the Church of Scotland's more common name?
(a) The Kirk.
(b) The Catholic.
(c) The Anglican.
(d) The Scotch Catholic.

5. The English language in Ireland is still _____ and non-standardized, according to Robert McCrum.
(a) Structured.
(b) Elizabethan.
(c) Ruralized.
(d) Heightened.

Short Answer Questions

1. When was Ivanhoe written?

2. Whose followers are known as Lollards, a somewhat rebellious movement, which preached anticlerical and biblically-centered reforms?

3. When was Martin Luther King, Jr. assassinated?

4. Which of the four ethnic groups that invaded Scotland during the Dark Ages united the kingdom?

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

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