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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 8, The Echoes of an English Voice.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. The English conquered and warred with the Irish for over how many years?
(a) 200.
(b) 600.
(c) 500.
(d) 800.

2. How many Irish emigrated to the United States in the nineteenth century?
(a) 2 million.
(b) 4.7 million.
(c) 6.1 million.
(d) 3.5 million.

3. What dialect is associated with the lower classes in England?
(a) Estuary.
(b) RP.
(c) Queen's English.
(d) Cockney.

4. What Latin-speaking philosopher and theologian was a major figure in the development of Western Christianity?
(a) St. Augustine.
(b) St. Mark.
(c) St. Peter.
(d) St. Patrick.

5. The Anglo-Saxon language received a major boost when Christianity brought an enormous Latin vocabulary starting in what year?
(a) 238 A.D.
(b) 359 A.D.
(c) 597 A.D.
(d) 283 B.C.

Short Answer Questions

1. What language did the Celts speak?

2. The Act of Union in what year brought Ireland into the United Kingdom, and English administrators started to impose English on the people?

3. Linguists know that languages spoken by around how much of humanity came from a common Indo-European source?

4. What threatened Britain's Celtic chiefs after the withdrawal of the Romans?

5. In Chapter 2, The Mother Tongue, the authors claim that the horse and the what spread the English language and caused its divergence?

(see the answer key)

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