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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. RP was spoken by how much of the British population at the origination of BBC?
(a) 1%.
(b) 3%.
(c) 20%.
(d) 10%.

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

3. The number of books in England did what after the invention of the printing press?
(a) Quadrupled.
(b) Tripled.
(c) Halved.
(d) Doubled.

4. How many novels has Robert MacNeil written, according to the Introduction?
(a) 1.
(b) 2.
(c) 5.
(d) 3.

5. Which of the early Germanic tribes lived in Northern Germany?
(a) Frisii.
(b) Celti.
(c) Buchi.
(d) Anglii.

Short Answer Questions

1. When did Queen Elizabeth die?

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

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

4. In Chapter 2, The Mother Tongue, the authors claim that the horse and the what spread the English language and caused its divergence?

5. Old English has barely how many Celtic words?

(see the answer key)

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