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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. Who is Noam Chomsky?
(a) An American linguist
(b) A French archaeologist
(c) A Russian writer
(d) A British psychologist
2. How many new words did Shakespeare invent?
(a) Over two thousand
(b) Over two hundred
(c) Over five hundred
(d) Over one thousand
3. What can make learning English unnecessarily difficult?
(a) Tense switching
(b) Grammar rules
(c) The alphabet
(d) Vowels
4. What language is most commonly chosen by international businesses?
(a) Italian
(b) French
(c) English
(d) Japanese
5. The Celts are strongly influenced by which culture?
(a) Norwegian
(b) French
(c) Germanic
(d) Roman
Short Answer Questions
1. Who tries to organize information about how people speak?
2. What can be spelled in a variety of ways?
3. What helps a listener and speaker to use the correct word when in doubt?
4. According to the author, varieties of English are heavily influenced by what?
5. How can English be particularly complex for non-native English speakers?
Short Essay Questions
1. What are the merits of using the English language?
2. Explain the theories that languages are based in sound.
3. How does the English language compare with the development and growth of other global languages?
4. How did the English language evolve in the British Isles or what is now known as the United Kingdom?
5. What is the result of attempting to draw demarcations of accents throughout the U.S.?
6. What measures can people take when exact pronunciations are critical?
7. What was the Great Vowel Shift?
8. What are the advantages and disadvantages of pictographic languages?
9. How does the author account for the changing pronunciation of English over time?
10. What irony does the author point out in Americans emulating British English?
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