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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Epilogue, Next Year's Words.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is an English-based creole of Sierra Leone, a first language of the residents of Freetown and its environs, and a lingua franca elsewhere in the country?
(a) Ki-Swahili.
(b) Krio.
(c) Singlish.
(d) Afrikaans.

2. 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) Germany.
(d) Israel.

3. What do the authors claim denote information about a speaker's life and career and explain community values?
(a) Languages.
(b) Accents.
(c) Styles.
(d) Vocabularies.

4. Johnson traveled through where at the dawn of the Enlightenment of Hume, Smith, Burns, and Telford?
(a) Scotland.
(b) Wales.
(c) New York.
(d) Ireland.

5. When did the First World War begin?
(a) 1919.
(b) 1909.
(c) 1914.
(d) 1922.

Short Answer Questions

1. What area of London was largely flattened in World War II?

2. 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?

3. In what decade did Australian English come to be of interest in other English speaking countries?

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. Who were among the first English-speaking migrants to the west and their descendants live in Cornwall, Scotland, Ireland, Wales, and Brittany?

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