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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 television entertainer does Robert McCrum claim is the lineal descendant of Amos and Andy?
(a) Ali G.
(b) Dave Chapelle.
(c) Borat.
(d) Eddie Murphy.

2. What is the first of the five points of Calvinism?
(a) Forgiveness.
(b) Love of God.
(c) Release of sin.
(d) Total depravity.

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

4. Who is the author of the novel Oscar and Lucinda?
(a) Danielle Steele.
(b) Mark Twain.
(c) Peter Carey.
(d) Jonathan Swift.

5. Robert McCrum writes in the Epilogue that English at the end of the 20th century is much like it was in which century?
(a) Sixteenth.
(b) Thirteenth.
(c) Nineteenth.
(d) Fifteenth.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who initiated the English Reformation?

2. What is a term used for both dialects of English and English-based pidgins and creoles, and whose meaning depends considerably upon the context, and particularly the part of the world?

3. Which name prefix did the Scots originate?

4. After World War II, which national economy sent multinational corporations across the world and into NATO and the UN?

5. What term is also known as Irish English and is the dialect of English spoken in Ireland?

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