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

2. Robert McCrum was Editor-in-Chief of what publishing house from 1979-1996?
(a) Penguin.
(b) Fitzgerald and Fitzgerald.
(c) Faber and Faber.
(d) Simon and Schuster.

3. What threatened Britain's Celtic chiefs after the withdrawal of the Romans?
(a) Islamic tribes.
(b) Christian warriors.
(c) Greek tribes.
(d) Germanic tribes.

4. What do the authors claim denote information about a speaker's life and career and explain community values?
(a) Vocabularies.
(b) Accents.
(c) Languages.
(d) Styles.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Julius Caesar and his armies conquered Britain when?

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

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

4. Which of the early Germanic tribes had speech that was Germanic and they lived Denmark?

5. The establishment of what was an important moment for English as word choices had to be made for standard broadcasting?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What cultural wars and battles helped to create the English language, according to the authors in Chapter 2, The Mother Tongue?

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

4. What do the authors preface regarding the style of the text in their Introduction?

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

6. What time frame is embodied by the Elizabethan period? What advances took place in English during this time?

7. What myths relating to the English language do the authors hope to dispel, according to the Introduction?

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

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

10. What is the difficulty of explaining sounds of language, according to the authors? What resources can help the reader in grasping dialect?

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