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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. When was Ivanhoe written?
(a) 1915.
(b) 1803.
(c) 1819.
(d) 1695.
2. Who were among the first English-speaking migrants to the west and their descendants live in Cornwall, Scotland, Ireland, Wales, and Brittany?
(a) The Germans.
(b) The Celts.
(c) The Romans.
(d) The Indians.
3. Who initiated the English Reformation?
(a) Queen Elizabeth.
(b) King Henry VIII.
(c) King George II.
(d) King Leopold I.
4. When did James I lead a council of bishops and Puritan divines to create the King James Bible?
(a) 1630.
(b) 1616.
(c) 1604.
(d) 1601.
5. The number of books in England did what after the invention of the printing press?
(a) Quadrupled.
(b) Halved.
(c) Doubled.
(d) Tripled.
Short Answer Questions
1. What great-grandfather of rap does Robert McCrum write is largely forgotten?
2. Which of the early Germanic tribes had speech that was Germanic and they lived Denmark?
3. The first Dictionary of the English Language contained over how many definitions?
4. Which novelist defined English language fanatics as "Snoots"?
5. When did the Angles, Saxons, and Jutes sail from Denmark and the German Coast into Britain?
Short Essay Questions
1. What examples do the authors give in Chapter 1, An English-Speaking World for the history of success of the English language?
2. What did James I do to reduce the rule of Celtic chiefs in Ulster?
3. Which group of Scots first spoke English? Where did it arrive from?
4. What do the authors write of the Puritans in Chapter 2, The Mother Tongue? Where were they located?
5. What myths do the authors dispel about the English language in Chapter 1, An English-Speaking World?
6. What myths relating to the English language do the authors hope to dispel, according to the Introduction?
7. What is notable about the standardization of English throughout history? What examples do the authors give in Chapter 1, An English-Speaking World?
8. What is the difficulty of explaining sounds of language, according to the authors? What resources can help the reader in grasping dialect?
9. Samuel Johnson's dictionary had what impact on the Scottish dialect? What were Johnson's experiences in Scotland?
10. What do the authors of The Story of English rely upon to relate the history of the English language?
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