1) Approximately how many categories of prefixes does the average Navajo verb have? a) 5 b) 15 c) 25 2) Why are polysynthetic languages difficult to learn? a) They are not properly understood by linguists. b) Every argument in a sentence is inflected on the verb, resulting in long words. c) They have hundreds of inflections for each verb. 3) Which two language groups are mentioned as having polysynthetic languages? a) Native American languages in North America and Polynesian languages b) African languages and European languages c) Australian languages and South American languages 4) Name one major written language mentioned in the text that is not polysynthetic. a) English b) Russian c) Chinese 5) Which type of languages are least understood by linguists? a) Polysynthetic languages b) Analytic languages c) Isolating languages 6) Which language is highly synthetic of all? a) English b) Latin c) Chinese 7) Synthetic and polysynthetic languages may be further divided into … languages? a) agglutinative and flective b) analytic and flective c) flective and inflectional 8) Grammatical processes are expressed through prefixes or suffixes and do not affect the form of the individual morphemes. Is the statement true or false for agglutinative languages? a) true b) false c) not related 9) Does Chinese language have inflection? a) yes b) no c) sometimes yes, sometimes no 10) Find the most commonly considered phrases. a) subject and verb b) subject, object and verb c) subject, object, attribute and verb

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