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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Which of the early Germanic tribes had speech that was Germanic and they lived Denmark?
(a) Celti.
(b) Frisii.
(c) Anglii.
(d) Buchi.

2. Who initiated the English Reformation?
(a) King Leopold I.
(b) King George II.
(c) King Henry VIII.
(d) Queen Elizabeth.

3. When did the Romans withdraw from Britain?
(a) 210 A.D.
(b) 520 A.D.
(c) 110 A.D.
(d) 410 A.D.

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

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

6. The Puritans were most highly concentrated where?
(a) Northumbria.
(b) East Anglia.
(c) New Hampshire.
(d) Wessex.

7. Northern Germany, Denmark, and the Netherlands produced their own language tree that divided into what and German?
(a) Welsh.
(b) Celtic.
(c) Norse.
(d) English.

8. What great-grandfather of rap does Robert McCrum write is largely forgotten?
(a) Dr. Dre.
(b) Mister Spoons.
(c) Master P.
(d) Anderson Clydeson.

9. Approximately how many people speak English as their first language today?
(a) 654 million.
(b) 230 million.
(c) 375 million.
(d) 800 million.

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

11. Linguists know that languages spoken by around how much of humanity came from a common Indo-European source?
(a) One half.
(b) One third.
(c) One fourth.
(d) One fifth.

12. Scots is one of the oldest and most interesting varieties of English dating back to which centuries?
(a) Sixth and seventh.
(b) First and second.
(c) Third and fourth.
(d) Eighth and ninth.

13. When was the assassination of Archduke Ferdinand?
(a) 1919.
(b) 1925.
(c) 1789.
(d) 1914.

14. When did Elizabeth become Queen of England?
(a) 1493.
(b) 1530.
(c) 1830.
(d) 1558.

15. Who remain the most direct descendants of the Celts?
(a) The Norwiegens.
(b) The Scottish.
(c) The Irish.
(d) The Welsh.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. RP was spoken by how much of the British population at the origination of BBC?

3. In what year did the English Reformation begin?

4. Who wrote Treasure Island?

5. The Renaissance added over how many words to the English language?

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