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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. Old English has barely how many Celtic words?
(a) 20.
(b) 12.
(c) 30.
(d) 10.

2. Which of the following words is attributed to Shakespeare's origination?
(a) Company.
(b) Death.
(c) Assassination.
(d) President.

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

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) Common.
(b) Simple.
(c) Average.
(d) Pidgin.

5. What style of music was the invention of the Scots-Irish?
(a) Jazz.
(b) Hip-hop.
(c) Country.
(d) Blues.

Short Answer Questions

1. Tyndale translated the Bible from Greek in what year?

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?

3. Robert McCrum was Editor-in-Chief of what publishing house from 1979-1996?

4. Who wrote Uncle Tom's Cabin?

5. Which variant was most likely the first pidgin English?

(see the answer key)

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