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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. What Latin-speaking philosopher and theologian was a major figure in the development of Western Christianity?
(a) St. Mark.
(b) St. Peter.
(c) St. Augustine.
(d) St. Patrick.

2. The Story of English was created alongside a nine-part television series for what network?
(a) NBC.
(b) ABC.
(c) CBS.
(d) PBS.

3. What television entertainer does Robert McCrum claim is the lineal descendant of Amos and Andy?
(a) Eddie Murphy.
(b) Borat.
(c) Ali G.
(d) Dave Chapelle.

4. In Chapter 2, The Mother Tongue, the authors claim that the horse and the what spread the English language and caused its divergence?
(a) Money.
(b) Poetry.
(c) Fire.
(d) Wheel.

5. James VI of Scotland became James I of England in what year?
(a) 1702.
(b) 1596.
(c) 1603.
(d) 1557.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who welcomed St. Augustine in England?

2. After World War II, which national economy sent multinational corporations across the world and into NATO and the UN?

3. Robert McCrum was Editor-in-Chief of what publishing house from 1979-1996?

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

5. When was the assassination of Archduke Ferdinand?

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