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

2. Daniel Webster was a leader in what political party?
(a) Whigs.
(b) Republican.
(c) Labor.
(d) Tories.

3. In order to find early Black American English, one must travel to the American South, especially Charlestown and where?
(a) South Carolina.
(b) Georgia.
(c) Louisiana.
(d) Mississippi.

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

5. Irish culture is a mixture of Celtic and what?
(a) East Indian.
(b) Germanic.
(c) New World.
(d) Anglo-Saxon.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does "RP" stand for?

2. Linguists know that languages spoken by around how much of humanity came from a common Indo-European source?

3. What television entertainer does Robert McCrum claim is the lineal descendant of Amos and Andy?

4. 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?

5. The people of what country have recently developed a fanatical desire to learn English, and English is vital in many developing countries, according to the author?

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