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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. Daniel Webster was a leader in what political party?
(a) Whigs.
(b) Tories.
(c) Republican.
(d) Labor.

2. What language did the Celts speak?
(a) Gaelic.
(b) Esotian.
(c) Entoarian.
(d) Germanic.

3. Who published the Dictionary of the English Language in 1755?
(a) James Joyce.
(b) Daniel Johnson.
(c) Samuel Johnson.
(d) Daniel Webster.

4. When was William Shakespeare born?
(a) 1564.
(b) 1603.
(c) 1572.
(d) 1555.

5. Johnson took on the established dictionaries of European language and decisively exceeded them through how many years of work?
(a) 10.
(b) 4.
(c) 14.
(d) 9.

Short Answer Questions

1. In what year did the English Reformation begin?

2. 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?

3. In Chapter 2, The Mother Tongue, the authors claim that the horse and the what spread the English language and caused its divergence?

4. Who is the author of the novel Oscar and Lucinda?

5. Adventures of Huckleberry Finn was first published in what year?

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