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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) Love of God.
(b) Total depravity.
(c) Release of sin.
(d) Forgiveness.
2. When was the assassination of Archduke Ferdinand?
(a) 1925.
(b) 1919.
(c) 1789.
(d) 1914.
3. Who is quoted from his Preface to A Dictionary of the English Language in the Introduction?
(a) Anderson Williams.
(b) Dr. Samuel Johnson.
(c) Daniel Webster.
(d) William Cran.
4. Julius Caesar and his armies conquered Britain when?
(a) 44 B.C.
(b) 55 B.C.
(c) 34 B.C.
(d) 100 B.C.
5. Who is Scotland's most celebrated poet?
(a) Walt Whitman.
(b) Sylvia Plath.
(c) Robert Burns.
(d) Samuel Beckett.
Short Answer Questions
1. Who were among the first English-speaking migrants to the west and their descendants live in Cornwall, Scotland, Ireland, Wales, and Brittany?
2. Who is the author of Ivanhoe?
3. The Story of English was created alongside a nine-part television series for what network?
4. How many people spoke English in Shakespeare's time?
5. What was the first successful English settlement on the mainland of North America?
Short Essay Questions
1. What do the authors of The Story of English rely upon to relate the history of the English language?
2. How do we know how the English language sounded hundreds of years ago? What do the authors relate about grammatical shifts in the Introduction?
3. How many definitions were in the original Johnson's dictionary? What was it drawn from?
4. Who spread the English language to the west initially? Who are their descendants?
5. What myths do the authors dispel about the English language in Chapter 1, An English-Speaking World?
6. What do the authors write regarding the fluidity of accents and culture in Chapter 1, An English-Speaking World?
7. What impact did the printing press and the scientific revolution have on the English language?
8. When did Julius Caesar invade the Celts? What was the result?
9. What is notable about the standardization of English throughout history? What examples do the authors give in Chapter 1, An English-Speaking World?
10. What did James I do to reduce the rule of Celtic chiefs in Ulster?
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