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

2. What does "RP" stand for?
(a) Received Pronunciation.
(b) Royal Pronunciation.
(c) Recieved Phonetics.
(d) Royal Phonetics.

3. Which of the four ethnic groups that invaded Scotland during the Dark Ages united the kingdom?
(a) The Scotti.
(b) The Finni.
(c) The Asti.
(d) The Illiuni.

4. 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) Estuary English.
(c) Jamaican English.
(d) Queen's English.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. How many blacks still speak the dialect of Gullah today?

2. What is another word for Old English?

3. When did Queen Victoria take the British crown?

4. What language is associated with the Irish people?

5. Who published the Dictionary of the English Language in 1755?

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