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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 2, The Mother Tongue.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Northern Germany, Denmark, and the Netherlands produced their own language tree that divided into what and German?
(a) Celtic.
(b) Norse.
(c) English.
(d) Welsh.

3. How many novels has Robert MacNeil written, according to the Introduction?
(a) 2.
(b) 5.
(c) 3.
(d) 1.

4. After World War II, which national economy sent multinational corporations across the world and into NATO and the UN?
(a) Canadian.
(b) American.
(c) French.
(d) British.

5. Which of the early Germanic tribes lived in Northern Germany?
(a) Celti.
(b) Buchi.
(c) Frisii.
(d) Anglii.

Short Answer Questions

1. Robert McCrum describes the modulation of British RP to what in the Introduction?

2. What threatened Britain's Celtic chiefs after the withdrawal of the Romans?

3. What language did the Celts speak?

4. What is the name of the dialect generally associated with the British working class?

5. Who were among the first English-speaking migrants to the west and their descendants live in Cornwall, Scotland, Ireland, Wales, and Brittany?

(see the answer key)

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