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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What do the authors claim denote information about a speaker's life and career and explain community values?
(a) Languages.
(b) Styles.
(c) Vocabularies.
(d) Accents.

2. What NASA space probe was launched during the original writing of The Story of English (Edition One)?
(a) Sputnik.
(b) Voyager Three.
(c) Voyager One.
(d) Voyager Two.

3. RP was spoken by how much of the British population at the origination of BBC?
(a) 20%.
(b) 3%.
(c) 10%.
(d) 1%.

4. The Anglo-Saxon language received a major boost when Christianity brought an enormous Latin vocabulary starting in what year?
(a) 359 A.D.
(b) 238 A.D.
(c) 597 A.D.
(d) 283 B.C.

5. Robert McCrum describes the modulation of British RP to what in the Introduction?
(a) Cockney English.
(b) American English.
(c) Estuary English.
(d) North Country English.

6. When was the original edition of The Story of English published?
(a) 1986.
(b) 1975.
(c) 1990.
(d) 1980.

7. What great-grandfather of rap does Robert McCrum write is largely forgotten?
(a) Mister Spoons.
(b) Master P.
(c) Anderson Clydeson.
(d) Dr. Dre.

8. What committee was formed to make decisions regarding standard English pronunciation for broadcasting in England?
(a) NCAA.
(b) ACCE.
(c) ACSE.
(d) NACP.

9. When did Queen Elizabeth die?
(a) 1650.
(b) 1595.
(c) 1603.
(d) 1600.

10. When did the Romans withdraw from Britain?
(a) 520 A.D.
(b) 210 A.D.
(c) 410 A.D.
(d) 110 A.D.

11. Who is the author of Ivanhoe?
(a) Andrew Webster.
(b) Sir Walter Scott.
(c) Robert Burns.
(d) Samuel Johnson.

12. Who was the leader of translation in the King James Bible?
(a) Webster.
(b) Bois.
(c) Anderson.
(d) Johnson.

13. Who wrote The American Language?
(a) Dr. Samuel Johnson.
(b) H.L. Mencken.
(c) William Cran.
(d) Daniel Webster.

14. What is another word for Old English?
(a) Celtic.
(b) Englisc.
(c) Germanic.
(d) Medieval English.

15. Who welcomed St. Augustine in England?
(a) King Ferdinand.
(b) King Aethelbert.
(c) King Skaronn.
(d) King Charles.

Short Answer Questions

1. James VI of Scotland became James I of England in what year?

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

3. When did James I die?

4. Who is the author of the novel Oscar and Lucinda?

5. Which of the early Germanic tribes lived in Northern Germany?

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