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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. When was the original edition of The Story of English published?
(a) 1980.
(b) 1975.
(c) 1990.
(d) 1986.

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

3. Approximately how many people speak English as their first language today?
(a) 230 million.
(b) 375 million.
(c) 654 million.
(d) 800 million.

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

5. What committee was formed to make decisions regarding standard English pronunciation for broadcasting in England?
(a) NACP.
(b) NCAA.
(c) ACCE.
(d) ACSE.

Short Answer Questions

1. When did the Romans withdraw from Britain?

2. Linguists know that languages spoken by around how much of humanity came from a common Indo-European source?

3. The Story of English was created alongside a nine-part television series for what network?

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

5. When did the Angles, Saxons, and Jutes sail from Denmark and the German Coast into Britain?

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