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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. What musical genre originated at the beginning of the 20th century in African American communities in the Southern United States from a confluence of African and European music traditions?
(a) Country.
(b) Bluegrass.
(c) Rap.
(d) Jazz.

2. What do the authors claim denote information about a speaker's life and career and explain community values?
(a) Accents.
(b) Vocabularies.
(c) Languages.
(d) Styles.

3. Who wrote Treasure Island?
(a) Robert Louis Stevenson.
(b) Sir Walter Scott.
(c) Robert Burns.
(d) William Shakespeare.

4. The culture of Ireland rose to a high point in what century?
(a) 12th.
(b) 6th.
(c) 10th.
(d) 14th.

5. Who wrote Uncle Tom's Cabin?
(a) Samuel Johnson.
(b) Harriet Beecher Stowe.
(c) James McDougal.
(d) Mark Twain.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. What NASA space probe was launched during the original writing of The Story of English (Edition One)?

4. Which of the early Germanic tribes had speech that was Germanic and they lived Denmark?

5. The first Dictionary of the English Language contained over how many definitions?

(see the answer key)

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