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|27. |Which development helped with the rise of national languages beginning in the fourteenth century? |

|A) |invention of the printing press |

|B) |agricultural revolution |

|C) |Celtic migrations |

|D) |fall of the Roman Empire |

|28. |A language that is the product of a process of convergence which allows speakers of two or more languages to communicate is |

|A) |a standardized language. |

|B) |a common language. |

|C) |a lingua franca. |

|D) |a lingua germanica. |

|29. |Convergence processes yielding a synthesis of several languages produce a pidgin language. When this language becomes the first|

| |language of a population it is referred to as a |

|A) |dialect. |

|B) |creole language. |

|C) |language subfamily. |

|D) |lingua franca. |

|30. |Official languages such as Spanish and Quechuan in Peru or English and Pilipino in the Philippines reflect |

|A) |linguist divergence. |

|B) |the country's history. |

|C) |creolization. |

|D) |linguas franca. |

|31. |Monolingual countries, in which only one language is spoken, are few in number. Which of the following is not one of these |

| |countries? |

|A) |Poland |

|B) |Japan |

|C) |Lesotho |

|D) |Argentina |

|32. |Countries in which more than one language are in use are called |

|A) |multilingual. |

|B) |monolingual. |

|C) |unilingual. |

|D) |non-lingual. |

|33. |In an attempt to deal with linguistic as well as cultural diversity, many former African colonies have taken as their official |

| |language |

|A) |the most widely-spoken indigenous language. |

|B) |an Austronesian and therefore neutral language. |

|C) |the language of the former colonial power. |

|D) |an invented language with no historical connections. |

|34. |The systematic study of the origin and meaning of place names is called |

|A) |deep reconstruction. |

|B) |namology. |

|C) |toponymy. |

|D) |lexicography. |

|35. |Clusters of French toponyms in Louisiana, Dutch toponyms in Michigan and Welsh toponyms in Pennsylvania reflect |

|A) |descriptive toponyms. |

|B) |folk toponyms. |

|C) |commemorative toponyms. |

|D) |the shift of names associated with migration. |

|36. |Leopoldville, Congo becomes Kinshasa and Salisbury, Zimbabwe becomes Harare. These are examples of |

|A) |colonial toponyms. |

|B) |descriptive toponyms. |

|C) |migration effects. |

|D) |post-colonial toponyms. |

|37. |After the breakup of the Soviet Union, Leningrad was renamed |

|A) |Yeltsinburg. |

|B) |Minsk. |

|C) |New Leninburg. |

|D) |St. Petersburg. |

|38. |The greatest concentration of streets memorializing Martin Luther King are found in: |

|A) |the West |

|B) |the Northeast, particularly Massachusetts |

|C) |the Midwest, especially Illinois |

|D) |the South, especially Georgia |

|39. |The naming of sports stadiums and other facilities for corporations (e.g. Petco Park, FedEx Field, Coors Field) is an example of|

|A) |hubris. |

|B) |memorial toponyms. |

|C) |commodification. |

|D) |post-modern toponyms. |

|40. |When African colonies became independent countries, one of the first acts of many of the new governments was to |

|A) |conduct a census. |

|B) |build a new capital city. |

|C) |change the names of places that had been named after colonial figures. |

|D) |build new road systems. |

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