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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. What is one of the four provinces of Ireland, located in the north of the island?
(a) Essex.
(b) Northumbria.
(c) Ulster.
(d) Jamestown.

2. What NASA space probe was launched during the original writing of The Story of English (Edition One)?
(a) Sputnik.
(b) Voyager Two.
(c) Voyager Three.
(d) Voyager One.

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

4. Global English is either British or what?
(a) Western.
(b) Eastern.
(c) Colonialized.
(d) American.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What Latin-speaking philosopher and theologian was a major figure in the development of Western Christianity?

2. How many quotations were in the original Dictionary of the English Language?

3. What do the authors claim denote information about a speaker's life and career and explain community values?

4. The Puritans were most highly concentrated where?

5. What was the first successful English settlement on the mainland of North America?

Short Essay Questions

1. When did the Scottish dialect fall into decline? What led to its standardization?

2. When did Julius Caesar invade the Celts? What was the result?

3. What impact did the printing press and the scientific revolution have on the English language?

4. Which group of Scots first spoke English? Where did it arrive from?

5. How do we know how the English language sounded hundreds of years ago? What do the authors relate about grammatical shifts in the Introduction?

6. What is notable about the standardization of English throughout history? What examples do the authors give in Chapter 1, An English-Speaking World?

7. What examples do the authors give in Chapter 1, An English-Speaking World for the history of success of the English language?

8. Samuel Johnson's dictionary had what impact on the Scottish dialect? What were Johnson's experiences in Scotland?

9. How many definitions were in the original Johnson's dictionary? What was it drawn from?

10. What do the authors of The Story of English rely upon to relate the history of the English language?

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