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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. RP was spoken by how much of the British population at the origination of BBC?
(a) 1%.
(b) 3%.
(c) 20%.
(d) 10%.
2. What word that originated in the American West means a source of great and sudden wealth or luck; a spectacular windfall?
(a) Bonanza.
(b) Stampede.
(c) Discombobulate.
(d) Lollapalooza.
3. Robert McCrum describes the modulation of British RP to what in the Introduction?
(a) American English.
(b) Cockney English.
(c) Estuary English.
(d) North Country English.
4. What author wrote Leaves of Grass?
(a) Robert Burns.
(b) William Butler Yeats.
(c) David Thoreau.
(d) Walt Whitman.
5. What term refers to a member of the dark-skinned people who were the earliest inhabitants of Australia?
(a) Indians.
(b) Acatuna.
(c) Aborigine.
(d) Nintoona.
Short Answer Questions
1. Who wrote Treasure Island?
2. In what decade did a rebellious side of black liberation come together in New Orleans?
3. Which novelist defined English language fanatics as "Snoots"?
4. When did the Louisiana Purchase take place?
5. Who were among the first English-speaking migrants to the west and their descendants live in Cornwall, Scotland, Ireland, Wales, and Brittany?
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