Quiz created: 2021-08-29

Review Quiz (Parts I-II: The Case & Its Analysis)

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1. At the time when L.L. Zamenhof created Esperanto, the city of Bialystok, where he was born, and the city of Warsaw, where he eventually practiced ophthalmology, were part of
Germany 
Poland 
Russia 
Lithuania 
Ukraine 
No Answer
2. In an autobiographical letter, Zamenhof writes that he was worried about the vocabulary of his new language when the word shveytsarskaya (“porter’s lodge”) suddenly struck him as the key he was looking for because
it was shared by Polish, Hebrew, and Latin 
the -skaya part was also part of other words 
it was especially hard to pronounce 
the element -tsar- suggested he was being watched by government spies 
No Answer
3. Zamenhof says he decided to derive the vocabulary of Esperanto from Romance and Germanic languages because [SELECT TWO]
they were already in wide use 
they had long historical roots 
he was attracted to the sounds of western European languages, especially Italian 
he thought of them as more “scientific” than other languages that he knew 
he found that arbitrary, made-up words were too difficult to remember 
4. The “analysis of the case” suggests that part of the secret of such success as Esperanto achieved may have been due to
growing resistance to autocratic governments in China, Turkey, and Russia at the time 
its similarity to European languages in the semantics of its words 
its use of additional letters like ĝ, ŝ, and ĵ to avoid ugly-looking consonant combinations 
a substantial grant from the Austro-Hungarian government, which hoped to blunt the cultural success of rival imperial states in Europe 
No Answer
5. The “analysis of the case” notes that native-speakers of Esperanto (typically raised by parents without another common language)
do not exist 
have slightly different accents, probably due to the non-Esperanto linguistic background of their parents or playmates 
do not understand each other very well 
acquire a shared and distinctive Esperanto accent that affects their speech in other languages they eventually learn 
No Answer

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This consummately cool, pedagogically compelling, self-correcting,
multiple-choice quiz was produced automatically from
a simple text file of questions using D.K. Jordan's
dubiously original, but publicly accessible
Think Again Quiz Maker
of April 9, 2021.