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

2. What NASA space probe was launched during the original writing of The Story of English (Edition One)?
(a) Voyager Three.
(b) Voyager Two.
(c) Voyager One.
(d) Sputnik.

3. When was the assassination of Archduke Ferdinand?
(a) 1914.
(b) 1919.
(c) 1789.
(d) 1925.

4. What is another word for Old English?
(a) Englisc.
(b) Germanic.
(c) Medieval English.
(d) Celtic.

5. Robert McCrum writes in the Introduction, "Language, we know, is in ceaseless ____."
(a) Love.
(b) Flux.
(c) Flow.
(d) Motion.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who brought the English language to Britain, according to Chapter 2, The Mother Tongue?

2. Which of the early Germanic tribes lived in Northern Germany?

3. Who is listed as the Executive Producer of the television series The Story of English?

4. Approximately how many people speak English as their first language today?

5. What language did the Celts speak?

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