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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. When was Ivanhoe written?
(a) 1915.
(b) 1695.
(c) 1819.
(d) 1803.
2. Linguists know that languages spoken by around how much of humanity came from a common Indo-European source?
(a) One half.
(b) One fourth.
(c) One third.
(d) One fifth.
3. The people of what country have recently developed a fanatical desire to learn English, and English is vital in many developing countries, according to the author?
(a) Korea.
(b) Germany.
(c) China.
(d) Israel.
4. What great-grandfather of rap does Robert McCrum write is largely forgotten?
(a) Dr. Dre.
(b) Anderson Clydeson.
(c) Mister Spoons.
(d) Master P.
5. When was the assassination of Archduke Ferdinand?
(a) 1914.
(b) 1789.
(c) 1919.
(d) 1925.
Short Answer Questions
1. The establishment of what was an important moment for English as word choices had to be made for standard broadcasting?
2. What is one of the four provinces of Ireland, located in the north of the island?
3. When did the Angles, Saxons, and Jutes sail from Denmark and the German Coast into Britain?
4. Who remain the most direct descendants of the Celts?
5. Who wrote The American Language?
Short Essay Questions
1. What do the authors write of the Puritans in Chapter 2, The Mother Tongue? Where were they located?
2. When did Julius Caesar invade the Celts? What was the result?
3. What did James I do to reduce the rule of Celtic chiefs in Ulster?
4. What myths do the authors dispel about the English language in Chapter 1, An English-Speaking World?
5. Which group of Scots first spoke English? Where did it arrive from?
6. What do the authors preface regarding the style of the text in their Introduction?
7. When did James I come to the British throne? What major impact did he have on the English language?
8. What impact did the printing press and the scientific revolution have on the English language?
9. What do the authors of The Story of English rely upon to relate the history of the English language?
10. What became of the Germanic tribes described in Chapter 2, The Mother Tongue? Where did they spread?
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