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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. Global English is either British or what?
(a) Western.
(b) Eastern.
(c) American.
(d) Colonialized.

2. What term refers to African Americans who live in the Lowcountry region of South Carolina and Georgia, which includes both the coastal plain and the Sea Islands?
(a) Indican.
(b) Haitian.
(c) Zulu.
(d) Gullah.

3. What threatened Britain's Celtic chiefs after the withdrawal of the Romans?
(a) Greek tribes.
(b) Islamic tribes.
(c) Germanic tribes.
(d) Christian warriors.

4. Northern Germany, Denmark, and the Netherlands produced their own language tree that divided into what and German?
(a) English.
(b) Celtic.
(c) Welsh.
(d) Norse.

5. What British author of Gulliver's Travels is known for being a master of two styles of satire: the Horatian and Juvenalian styles?
(a) Daniel Webster.
(b) Samuel Johnson.
(c) Mark Twain.
(d) Jonathan Swift.

Short Answer Questions

1. What do the authors claim denote information about a speaker's life and career and explain community values?

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

3. Who wrote The American Language?

4. When was Ivanhoe written?

5. When did Robert MacNeil retire, according to his bio in the Introduction?

(see the answer key)

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