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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 4, The Guid Scots Tongue.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Robert McCrum describes the modulation of British RP to what in the Introduction?
(a) Cockney English.
(b) Estuary English.
(c) American English.
(d) North Country English.

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

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

4. Who is the author of Ivanhoe?
(a) Robert Burns.
(b) Andrew Webster.
(c) Samuel Johnson.
(d) Sir Walter Scott.

5. The Scots of the Lowlands first spoke a form of English brought by the Angles of Northumbria mixed with four ethnic groups that invaded during what period?
(a) The Restoration.
(b) The Dark Ages.
(c) The Inquisition.
(d) The Rensaissance.

Short Answer Questions

1. When was the Education Act passed in the United Kingdom?

2. The number of books in England did what after the invention of the printing press?

3. Robert McCrum writes in the Introduction, "Language, we know, is in ceaseless ____."

4. What committee was formed to make decisions regarding standard English pronunciation for broadcasting in England?

5. When was Jonathan Swift born?

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