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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.
Multiple Choice Questions
1. Who wrote The American Language?
(a) H.L. Mencken.
(b) Daniel Webster.
(c) William Cran.
(d) Dr. Samuel Johnson.
2. Who is listed as the Executive Producer of the television series The Story of English?
(a) Robert MacNeil.
(b) Anderson Williams.
(c) William Cran.
(d) Robert McCrum.
3. Which of the early Germanic tribes lived in Northern Germany?
(a) Celti.
(b) Buchi.
(c) Frisii.
(d) Anglii.
4. English is the official language of how many countries?
(a) 53.
(b) 25.
(c) 43.
(d) 34.
5. When was William Shakespeare born?
(a) 1572.
(b) 1564.
(c) 1603.
(d) 1555.
Short Answer Questions
1. When was Jonathan Swift born?
2. Who is Scotland's most celebrated poet?
3. Scots is one of the oldest and most interesting varieties of English dating back to which centuries?
4. Who is the author of Ivanhoe?
5. Robert McCrum describes the modulation of British RP to what in the Introduction?
Short Essay Questions
1. What managed to diminish the number of dialects in Great Britain?
2. Who spread the English language to the west initially? Who are their descendants?
3. What do the authors write regarding the fluidity of accents and culture in Chapter 1, An English-Speaking World?
4. When was the Scottish tongue at its peak? What caused its downfall?
5. What became of the Germanic tribes described in Chapter 2, The Mother Tongue? Where did they spread?
6. What do the authors write of the advances from broadcasting on English in Chapter 1, An English-Speaking World?
7. What time frame is embodied by the Elizabethan period? What advances took place in English during this time?
8. When did Julius Caesar invade the Celts? What was the result?
9. How do we know how the English language sounded hundreds of years ago? What do the authors relate about grammatical shifts in the Introduction?
10. How many definitions were in the original Johnson's dictionary? What was it drawn from?
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