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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 was Jonathan Swift born?
(a) 1595.
(b) 1667.
(c) 1675.
(d) 1695.

2. When did the Angles, Saxons, and Jutes sail from Denmark and the German Coast into Britain?
(a) 449 A.D.
(b) 340 B.C.
(c) 100 B.C.
(d) 300 A.D.

3. The establishment of what was an important moment for English as word choices had to be made for standard broadcasting?
(a) PBS.
(b) BBC.
(c) CBS.
(d) NBC.

4. From what century onwards did England begin domination of Ireland?
(a) 10th.
(b) 12th.
(c) 8th.
(d) 4th.

5. What was the first successful English settlement on the mainland of North America?
(a) New York.
(b) Washington D.C.
(c) Cooperstown.
(d) Jamestown.

Short Answer Questions

1. When did Robert MacNeil retire, according to his bio in the Introduction?

2. The denial of Afrikaans in South Africa sparked an explosive riot in what year?

3. How many novels has Robert MacNeil written, according to the Introduction?

4. The English language in Ireland is still _____ and non-standardized, according to Robert McCrum.

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

(see the answer key)

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