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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. When did the American Civil War begin?
(a) 1861.
(b) 1845.
(c) 1795.
(d) 1856.

2. Global English is either British or what?
(a) American.
(b) Western.
(c) Eastern.
(d) Colonialized.

3. Who wrote The American Language?
(a) H.L. Mencken.
(b) Daniel Webster.
(c) William Cran.
(d) Dr. Samuel Johnson.

4. Scots is one of the oldest and most interesting varieties of English dating back to which centuries?
(a) Eighth and ninth.
(b) Third and fourth.
(c) First and second.
(d) Sixth and seventh.

5. What author noted that Southern women often sounded like their black slaves?
(a) Andrew Johnson.
(b) Charles Dickens.
(c) Mark Twain.
(d) Samuel Clemens.

Short Answer Questions

1. How many blacks were in the United States when the Civil War began?

2. What language did the Celts speak?

3. The first Dictionary of the English Language contained over how many definitions?

4. How many quotations were in the original Dictionary of the English Language?

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

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