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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. The Scots of the Lowlands first spoke a form of English brought by the Angles of Northumbria mixed with four ethnic groups that invaded during what period?
(a) The Inquisition.
(b) The Rensaissance.
(c) The Restoration.
(d) The Dark Ages.

2. By what year were nearly half of the English literate, according to Chapter 3, A Muse of Fire?
(a) 1400.
(b) 1550.
(c) 1600.
(d) 1500.

3. What great-grandfather of rap does Robert McCrum write is largely forgotten?
(a) Mister Spoons.
(b) Dr. Dre.
(c) Anderson Clydeson.
(d) Master P.

4. Robert McCrum writes in the Introduction, "Language, we know, is in ceaseless ____."
(a) Love.
(b) Motion.
(c) Flow.
(d) Flux.

5. Which of the following words is attributed to Shakespeare's origination?
(a) Assassination.
(b) President.
(c) Death.
(d) Company.

Short Answer Questions

1. When did James Cook sail to Queensland?

2. How many copies of Webster's Dictionary sold during the author's lifetime?

3. Robert McCrum describes the modulation of British RP to what in the Introduction?

4. What was a common form of passing language down from one generation to the next in Irish culture?

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

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