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Review Quiz (Part VII: Modern States & Language Planning)

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1. According to the essay, most contemporary efforts to promote “small” languages “inevitably founder on the fact that”
they lack internet communities 
there are very few qualified teachers 
younger speakers know that they are no longer “good for very much” as means of communication 
schools refuse to teach them 
older speakers tend to lack teeth and can’t pronounce them clearly enough for younger people to learn them 
No Answer
2. International governmental organizations, for political reasons, must often make many languages “official,” but because it is impractical to conduct all their business in all of the official languages, as a practical matter almost any international organization uses for its everyday business
Esperanto 
one or two “working languages” 
machine translation, such as Google Translate 
English alone 
No Answer
3. In most countries all school students must study at least one language in addition to the one they use at home. The goal is
to promote the mental agility that comes with language study 
to promote multiculturalism 
to promote national unification by making all citizens fluent in a single, “national” language 
to equip students to migrate to richer countries to send back money to their relatives back home. 
No Answer
4. The term “languages of wider communication” has largely disappeared in language-planning circles due to
ambiguities about the meaning of “width” in the context of communication 
the ascent of global English 
the increasing importance of Chinese, which is geographically more concentrated (less “wide”) than English, French, Russian, and Spanish, to which the term originally applied 
because it was felt to be insulting to languages with few speakers, who objected to the implication that they experienced “narrow communication” 
No Answer
5. The essay argues in general non-native speakers have tended to study other languages
of rich and powerful populations 
with rich literary traditions 
only if they are easy to learn 
only if there is an available school system to provide instruction 
very imperfectly, only to the extent that they need them for some concrete, practical purpose, such as trade or migration 
only when human or machine translation is unavailable 
No Answer
6. According to the essay, one argument made today in favor of wide adoption of Esperanto is that
it would shelter other languages from competition with global English 
it serves far better than any other known language as a stepping stone to useful multilingualism 
it is not subject to the forces of political correctness that afflict usage in other languages 
it has not evolved the irregularities and idiosyncrasies that inhibit the successful study of other languages 
it was devised by a Jew who knew both Yiddish and Hebrew and therefore made sure that it was appropriate for the discussion of holy things 
it fulfills the language requirement in Revelle and Roosevelt colleges. 
No Answer

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This consummately cool, pedagogically compelling, self-correcting,
multiple-choice quiz was produced automatically from
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