1. The Head of State of New Zealand is__________.

A. the governor-general. B. the Prime Minister.

C. the high commissioner. D. the monarch of the United Kingdom.

2. The capital of Scotland is__________

A. Glasgow. B. Edinburgh.

C. Manchester. D. London.

. Who wrote the Declaration of Independence and later became the U.S. President?

A. Thomas Jefferson. B. George Washington.

C. Thomas Paine. D. John Adams.

4. Which of the following cities is located on the eastern coast of Australia?

A. Perth. B. Adelaide. C. Sydney. D. Melbourne.

5. Ode to the West Wind was written by__________

A. William Blake. B. William Wordsworth.

C. Samuel Taylor Coleridge. D. Percy B. Shelley.

6. Who among the following is a poet of free verse?

A. Ralph Waldo Emerson. B. Walt Whitman.

C. Herman Melville D. Theodore Dreiser.

7. The novel Sons and Lovers was written by__________

A. Thomas Hardy. B. John Galsworthy.

C. D.H. Lawrence. D. James Joyce.

8. The study of the mental processes of language comprehension and production is__________

A. corpus linguistics. B. sociolinguistics.

C. theoretical linguistics. D. psycholinguistics.

9. A special language variety that mixes languages and is used by speakers of different languages for purposes of trading is called__________

A. dialect. B. idiolect. C. pidgin. D. register.

10. When a speaker expresses his intention of speaking, such as asking someone to open the window, he is performing__________

A. an illocutionary act. B. a perlocutionary act.

C. a locutionary act. D. none of the above.

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