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Quizzes, World History Quizzes / June 2013

Language Quiz

Question 1

People who lived during the late Ice Age

could communicate only by grunting and gesturing.
had fully developed language skills.
used a sophisticated form of sign language.
spoke an early form of German.

Question 2

How have linguists traditionally studied the history of languages?

by studying changes in cognates
by tracing changes in DNA
by teleporting themselves to the past
by comparing modern languages to cave paintings

Question 3

How many words did Mark Pagel’s team list as holdovers from thousands of years ago?

12
23
46
85

Question 4

Read “English May Have Retained Words From an Ice Age Language” to answer this question: What percentage of English and German words have derived from a common ancestor?

10 percent
50 percent
70 percent
85 percent

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