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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 6, Black on White.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Northern Germany, Denmark, and the Netherlands produced their own language tree that divided into what and German?
(a) English.
(b) Norse.
(c) Celtic.
(d) Welsh.

2. Who was a central figure in the Uncle Remus stories of the Southern United States?
(a) Butler Johnson.
(b) Johnny Appleseed.
(c) Pecan Pete.
(d) Brer Rabbit.

3. Who published the Dictionary of the English Language in 1755?
(a) Samuel Johnson.
(b) James Joyce.
(c) Daniel Johnson.
(d) Daniel Webster.

4. What is the name of the dialect generally associated with the British working class?
(a) Cockney.
(b) Estuary.
(c) Queen's English.
(d) RP.

5. Who is Scotland's most celebrated poet?
(a) Samuel Beckett.
(b) Robert Burns.
(c) Walt Whitman.
(d) Sylvia Plath.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. When was Martin Luther King, Jr. assassinated?

3. Approximately how many people speak English as their first language today?

4. The number of books in England did what after the invention of the printing press?

5. Which name prefix did the Scots originate?

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