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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. Whose followers are known as Lollards, a somewhat rebellious movement, which preached anticlerical and biblically-centered reforms?
(a) Samuel Johnson's.
(b) John Wycliffe's.
(c) Daniel Webster's.
(d) James Calvin's.

2. What is considered the highest level of standardization of English, according to the authors in Chapter 1, An English-Speaking World?
(a) Jamaican English.
(b) Cockney English.
(c) Queen's English.
(d) Estuary English.

3. What term refers to a variety of English spoken in Singapore, incorporating elements of Chinese and Malay?
(a) Afrikaans.
(b) Singlish.
(c) Ki-Swahili.
(d) East English.

4. What is the traditional site of disembarkation of William Bradford and the Mayflower Pilgrims?
(a) Plymouth Rock.
(b) Ellis Island.
(c) Nina Maria.
(d) Philadelphia.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. The establishment of what was an important moment for English as word choices had to be made for standard broadcasting?

3. The Story of English was created alongside a nine-part television series for what network?

4. The culture of Ireland rose to a high point in what century?

5. 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?

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