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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Epilogue, Next Year's Words.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When did the Angles, Saxons, and Jutes sail from Denmark and the German Coast into Britain?
(a) 449 A.D.
(b) 340 B.C.
(c) 100 B.C.
(d) 300 A.D.

2. In order to find early Black American English, one must travel to the American South, especially Charlestown and where?
(a) Louisiana.
(b) Mississippi.
(c) South Carolina.
(d) Georgia.

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

4. What term means a people or person who use many languages?
(a) Polyglot.
(b) Babylonian.
(c) Industrius.
(d) Bilingual.

5. What television entertainer does Robert McCrum claim is the lineal descendant of Amos and Andy?
(a) Ali G.
(b) Eddie Murphy.
(c) Borat.
(d) Dave Chapelle.

Short Answer Questions

1. Adventures of Huckleberry Finn was first published in what year?

2. Robert McCrum writes in the Epilogue that English at the end of the 20th century is much like it was in which century?

3. The English language was formed through how many invasions?

4. Who initiated the English Reformation?

5. Bilingualism began in earnest in India in what year?

(see the answer key)

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