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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. For what is the Venerable Bede famous?
(a) Defending Britain from the Romans
(b) Printing the Bible in French
(c) Preserving religious rituals on scrolls
(d) Writing a book on the History of England

2. English speakers then to think their language is ___________________.
(a) dignified
(b) easy to master
(c) difficult to learn
(d) superior

3. What about the English language gives users greater range of expression?
(a) More vowel sounds
(b) Active and passive voices
(c) More letters of the alphabet
(d) Past and future tenses

4. What profession encourages expressions that make numbers and letters clearer when communicating by radio?
(a) Pilots
(b) Cab drivers
(c) Ship captains
(d) Football coaches

5. How many new words did Shakespeare invent?
(a) Over five hundred
(b) Over two thousand
(c) Over one thousand
(d) Over two hundred

6. From which tribe does England get its name?
(a) The Angles
(b) The Engles
(c) The Angels
(d) The Englees

7. What happens when a group of native speakers dies out?
(a) The language lives on in verbal communications
(b) The language lives on in documents
(c) The language dies
(d) A new language is formed

8. Who tries to organize information about how people speak?
(a) Historians
(b) Professors
(c) Linguists
(d) Speech therapists

9. Chapter 7 addresses the _________________ examples of ways English is spoken throughout the world.
(a) Historic
(b) Humorous
(c) Transitional
(d) Inaccurate

10. Physical communication strategies include proximity between speakers, hand gestures and ______________________.
(a) head movements
(b) tics
(c) facial expression
(d) utterances

11. What else impacts the pronunciation of some words?
(a) Lazy speakers
(b) Regional pronunciations
(c) Speech impediments
(d) Southern accents

12. During Norman rule, which words are appropriate for the upper class to use?
(a) French
(b) Irish
(c) Italian
(d) Danish

13. Language issues tend to be __________________.
(a) political
(b) universal
(c) irreconcilable
(d) constant

14. English in the United Kingdom is more _____________ than it is in the United States.
(a) proper
(b) regulated
(c) varied
(d) stilted

15. In Chapter 4, the author traces the development of English in what country?
(a) France
(b) Norway
(c) Spain
(d) United Kingdom

Short Answer Questions

1. Who invades England in 1066?

2. Which part of Spain often engages in violence to protect its language?

3. Many English speakers promote the particular variety of English that they speak while ____________________ the dialects of speakers from other regions.

4. What brings some sort of uniformity to spelling and language?

5. The author states that there are characteristics in the English language that ______________________________.

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