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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 7, Pioneers! O Pioneers!.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. By what year were nearly half of the English literate, according to Chapter 3, A Muse of Fire?
(a) 1400.
(b) 1550.
(c) 1600.
(d) 1500.

2. What was Mark Twain's real name?
(a) Samuel Clemens.
(b) Alexander Clemens.
(c) Johnathan Swift.
(d) Mark Stevenson.

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

4. What is the British spelling of the word "color"?
(a) Culor.
(b) Collor.
(c) Colour.
(d) Corlor.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What word refers to a process of conversion of verbal or written elements of any other language into a more comprehensible English form for an English speaker or to become English in form or character?

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

3. How many copies of Webster's Dictionary sold during the author's lifetime?

4. What is the Church of Scotland's more common name?

5. What is a term used for both dialects of English and English-based pidgins and creoles, and whose meaning depends considerably upon the context, and particularly the part of the world?

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