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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When was William Shakespeare born?
(a) 1603.
(b) 1564.
(c) 1555.
(d) 1572.

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

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

4. Who remain the most direct descendants of the Celts?
(a) The Norwiegens.
(b) The Scottish.
(c) The Welsh.
(d) The Irish.

5. Who wrote Treasure Island?
(a) William Shakespeare.
(b) Robert Louis Stevenson.
(c) Sir Walter Scott.
(d) Robert Burns.

6. Who is quoted from his Preface to A Dictionary of the English Language in the Introduction?
(a) Daniel Webster.
(b) Anderson Williams.
(c) William Cran.
(d) Dr. Samuel Johnson.

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

8. Which of the early Germanic tribes lived in Northern Germany?
(a) Frisii.
(b) Buchi.
(c) Celti.
(d) Anglii.

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

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

11. When did Robert MacNeil retire, according to his bio in the Introduction?
(a) 1990.
(b) 1998.
(c) 1995.
(d) 1992.

12. Who initiated the English Reformation?
(a) Queen Elizabeth.
(b) King Henry VIII.
(c) King George II.
(d) King Leopold I.

13. Linguists know that languages spoken by around how much of humanity came from a common Indo-European source?
(a) One half.
(b) One third.
(c) One fifth.
(d) One fourth.

14. Scots is one of the oldest and most interesting varieties of English dating back to which centuries?
(a) Sixth and seventh.
(b) Eighth and ninth.
(c) First and second.
(d) Third and fourth.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. After World War II, which national economy sent multinational corporations across the world and into NATO and the UN?

3. The first Dictionary of the English Language contained over how many definitions?

4. Whose followers are known as Lollards, a somewhat rebellious movement, which preached anticlerical and biblically-centered reforms?

5. What was the first successful English settlement on the mainland of North America?

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