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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 3, A Muse of Fire.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Tyndale translated the Bible from Greek in what year?
(a) 1650.
(b) 1603.
(c) 1525.
(d) 1559.

3. The Puritans were most highly concentrated where?
(a) New Hampshire.
(b) Wessex.
(c) East Anglia.
(d) Northumbria.

4. Robert McCrum was Editor-in-Chief of what publishing house from 1979-1996?
(a) Faber and Faber.
(b) Simon and Schuster.
(c) Fitzgerald and Fitzgerald.
(d) Penguin.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. When did Elizabeth become Queen of England?

3. When did James I die?

4. When did Queen Elizabeth die?

5. Who is the author of the novel Oscar and Lucinda?

(see the answer key)

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