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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 3, A Muse of Fire.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Where was Shakespeare born and raised?
(a) London.
(b) Stratford-upon-Avon.
(c) Essex.
(d) Wilforshire.

2. Who is quoted from his Preface to A Dictionary of the English Language in the Introduction?
(a) William Cran.
(b) Dr. Samuel Johnson.
(c) Daniel Webster.
(d) Anderson Williams.

3. What language did the Celts speak?
(a) Esotian.
(b) Gaelic.
(c) Entoarian.
(d) Germanic.

4. Whose followers are known as Lollards, a somewhat rebellious movement, which preached anticlerical and biblically-centered reforms?
(a) Samuel Johnson's.
(b) John Wycliffe's.
(c) James Calvin's.
(d) Daniel Webster's.

5. What was the first successful English settlement on the mainland of North America?
(a) Jamestown.
(b) Washington D.C.
(c) New York.
(d) Cooperstown.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who wrote The American Language?

2. How many novels has Robert MacNeil written, according to the Introduction?

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

4. In what year did the English Reformation begin?

5. Global English is either British or what?

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