English Language Quiz (Weeks 1-5)

According to our grading system, what percentage of the final grade is based on projects?

• 25%

• 50%

• 10%

• 15%

If you complete half of the assigned homework assignments, what percentage of your final grade will be lost?

• 12.5%

• 10%

• 5%

• 15%

According to Robert McCrum, what is the truth about language?

• Language is controlled by schoolteachers and governments

• Language is influenced by print

• Language is always in flux

• Language is fixed and unchanging

What percentage of English words have Greek or Latin roots?

• Less than 10 percent

• Over 60 percent

• Exactly 50 percent

• Around 40 percent

How many countries have English as their official language or second language?

• 86

• 23

• 59

• 11

What is the medium for 80% of the information stored in the world's computers?

• English

• Spanish

• Italian

• French

What is the purpose of close reading?

• To read quickly

• To skim through the text

• To summarize the text

• To understand the author's purpose

What does the poem 'A Dream Deferred' by Langston Hughes explore?

• The heaviness of dreams

• The explosion of dreams

• The drying up of dreams

• The sweetness of dreams

What is the purpose of imitating sentences of great authors?

• To create monotonous sentences

• To learn from their writing style

• To memorize their sentences

• To plagiarize their work

What is the function of an adjective in a sentence?

• To modify a noun or pronoun

• To connect words or groups of words

• To express action or being

• To indicate the time, place, or manner of an action