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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. What is the Church of Scotland's more common name?
(a) The Kirk.
(b) The Catholic.
(c) The Anglican.
(d) The Scotch Catholic.

2. How many Irish emigrated to the United States in the nineteenth century?
(a) 3.5 million.
(b) 4.7 million.
(c) 2 million.
(d) 6.1 million.

3. When was the Education Act passed in the United Kingdom?
(a) 1923.
(b) 1833.
(c) 1655.
(d) 1789.

4. 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?
(a) Korea.
(b) China.
(c) Israel.
(d) Germany.

5. Where was the slave trade centered in Great Britain?
(a) Essex.
(b) London.
(c) Ireland.
(d) Bristol.

Short Answer Questions

1. What was the first successful English settlement on the mainland of North America?

2. What is an honorific name given to those American Loyalists who resettled in British North America and other British Colonies as an act of fealty to King George III after the British defeat in the American Revolutionary War?

3. What is considered the highest level of standardization of English, according to the authors in Chapter 1, An English-Speaking World?

4. What British author of Gulliver's Travels is known for being a master of two styles of satire: the Horatian and Juvenalian styles?

5. Northern Germany, Denmark, and the Netherlands produced their own language tree that divided into what and German?

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