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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. What is the capital of New Zealand?
(a) Wellington.
(b) Oxford.
(c) Binghamshire.
(d) Sydney.

2. By what year were nearly half of the English literate, according to Chapter 3, A Muse of Fire?
(a) 1600.
(b) 1400.
(c) 1500.
(d) 1550.

3. What is the name of the dialect generally associated with the British working class?
(a) Cockney.
(b) RP.
(c) Estuary.
(d) Queen's English.

4. The people of what country have recently developed a fanatical desire to learn English, and English is vital in many developing countries, according to the author?
(a) China.
(b) Israel.
(c) Korea.
(d) Germany.

5. What island nation situated in the western area of the North Atlantic Ocean and east of the Windward Islands and the Caribbean Sea has an Irish community today?
(a) Barbados.
(b) Haiti.
(c) Puerto Rico.
(d) Jamaica.

Short Answer Questions

1. What industry is centered on the promotion of travel, especially for commercial purposes?

2. What is considered the highest level of standardization of English, according to the authors in Chapter 1, An English-Speaking World?

3. Which novelist defined English language fanatics as "Snoots"?

4. Who is the author of Ivanhoe?

5. What was Mark Twain's real name?

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