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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. What style of music was the invention of the Scots-Irish?
(a) Country.
(b) Blues.
(c) Hip-hop.
(d) Jazz.

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

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

4. Who is the author of the novel Oscar and Lucinda?
(a) Peter Carey.
(b) Jonathan Swift.
(c) Danielle Steele.
(d) Mark Twain.

5. When did Queen Elizabeth die?
(a) 1595.
(b) 1650.
(c) 1600.
(d) 1603.

Short Answer Questions

1. Johnson took on the established dictionaries of European language and decisively exceeded them through how many years of work?

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

3. The Renaissance added over how many words to the English language?

4. What is the name of the dialect generally associated with the British working class?

5. When was the original edition of The Story of English published?

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