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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 8, The Echoes of an English Voice.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When did Elizabeth become Queen of England?
(a) 1830.
(b) 1530.
(c) 1493.
(d) 1558.

2. Who brought the English language to Britain, according to Chapter 2, The Mother Tongue?
(a) Celts.
(b) Asian tribes.
(c) Germanic tribes.
(d) Roman tribes.

3. The United States is how many times the size of the United Kingdom?
(a) 60.
(b) 100.
(c) 10.
(d) 30.

4. What area of London was largely flattened in World War II?
(a) West End.
(b) East End.
(c) North End.
(d) South End.

5. What is the name of the dialect generally associated with the British working class?
(a) Estuary.
(b) Cockney.
(c) RP.
(d) Queen's English.

Short Answer Questions

1. Whose followers are known as Lollards, a somewhat rebellious movement, which preached anticlerical and biblically-centered reforms?

2. What word that originated in the American West means a source of great and sudden wealth or luck; a spectacular windfall?

3. 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?

4. 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?

5. Approximately how many words are in the English language?

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