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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. Who is Scotland's most celebrated poet?
(a) Walt Whitman.
(b) Samuel Beckett.
(c) Sylvia Plath.
(d) Robert Burns.

2. Which name prefix did the Scots originate?
(a) Boyd.
(b) Ross.
(c) Mc.
(d) An.

3. Scots is one of the oldest and most interesting varieties of English dating back to which centuries?
(a) Third and fourth.
(b) Eighth and ninth.
(c) Sixth and seventh.
(d) First and second.

4. Which of the early Germanic tribes lived in Northern Germany?
(a) Buchi.
(b) Celti.
(c) Frisii.
(d) Anglii.

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?
(a) Nonstandard English.
(b) Pidgin English.
(c) Black English.
(d) Native English.

Short Answer Questions

1. When was Jonathan Swift born?

2. Where was the Archduke Ferdinand assassinated?

3. When did Elizabeth become Queen of England?

4. 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?

5. What threatened Britain's Celtic chiefs after the withdrawal of the Romans?

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