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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 4, The Guid Scots Tongue.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is considered the highest level of standardization of English, according to the authors in Chapter 1, An English-Speaking World?
(a) Cockney English.
(b) Queen's English.
(c) Estuary English.
(d) Jamaican English.

2. The Scots of the Lowlands first spoke a form of English brought by the Angles of Northumbria mixed with four ethnic groups that invaded during what period?
(a) The Restoration.
(b) The Rensaissance.
(c) The Inquisition.
(d) The Dark Ages.

3. When was the assassination of Archduke Ferdinand?
(a) 1789.
(b) 1919.
(c) 1925.
(d) 1914.

4. What is a simplified language that develops as a means of communication between two or more groups that do not have a language in common?
(a) Pidgin.
(b) Simple.
(c) Common.
(d) Average.

5. The number of books in England did what after the invention of the printing press?
(a) Doubled.
(b) Tripled.
(c) Quadrupled.
(d) Halved.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is another word for Old English?

2. Who was the leader of translation in the King James Bible?

3. James VI of Scotland became James I of England in what year?

4. The Story of English was created alongside a nine-part television series for what network?

5. Northern Germany, Denmark, and the Netherlands produced their own language tree that divided into what and German?

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