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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Where was the Archduke Ferdinand assassinated?
(a) Sarajevo.
(b) London.
(c) New York.
(d) Paris.

2. James VI of Scotland became James I of England in what year?
(a) 1557.
(b) 1596.
(c) 1603.
(d) 1702.

3. What style of music was the invention of the Scots-Irish?
(a) Jazz.
(b) Country.
(c) Hip-hop.
(d) Blues.

4. Johnson traveled through where at the dawn of the Enlightenment of Hume, Smith, Burns, and Telford?
(a) Ireland.
(b) Wales.
(c) Scotland.
(d) New York.

5. In Chapter 2, The Mother Tongue, the authors claim that the horse and the what spread the English language and caused its divergence?
(a) Money.
(b) Wheel.
(c) Poetry.
(d) Fire.

Short Answer Questions

1. How many people spoke English in Shakespeare's time?

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

3. How many novels has Robert MacNeil written, according to the Introduction?

4. When did the Angles, Saxons, and Jutes sail from Denmark and the German Coast into Britain?

5. Who were among the first English-speaking migrants to the west and their descendants live in Cornwall, Scotland, Ireland, Wales, and Brittany?

Short Essay Questions

1. What impact did the printing press and the scientific revolution have on the English language?

2. Who was William Shakespeare and what impact did he have on the English language?

3. What examples do the authors give in Chapter 1, An English-Speaking World for the history of success of the English language?

4. What do the authors assert about the state of flux of the English language in the Introduction?

5. Who spread the English language to the west initially? Who are their descendants?

6. What did James I do to reduce the rule of Celtic chiefs in Ulster?

7. What do the authors write of the Puritans in Chapter 2, The Mother Tongue? Where were they located?

8. When did the Scottish dialect fall into decline? What led to its standardization?

9. What do the authors preface regarding the style of the text in their Introduction?

10. What is the difficulty of explaining sounds of language, according to the authors? What resources can help the reader in grasping dialect?

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