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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 6, Black on White.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Which of the following words is attributed to Shakespeare's origination?
(a) President.
(b) Death.
(c) Company.
(d) Assassination.

2. Tyndale translated the Bible from Greek in what year?
(a) 1603.
(b) 1559.
(c) 1525.
(d) 1650.

3. Approximately how many words are in the English language?
(a) 200,000.
(b) 100,000.
(c) 500,000.
(d) 1,000,000.

4. When did the First World War begin?
(a) 1919.
(b) 1922.
(c) 1914.
(d) 1909.

5. Johnson traveled through where at the dawn of the Enlightenment of Hume, Smith, Burns, and Telford?
(a) Wales.
(b) Ireland.
(c) Scotland.
(d) New York.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who was a central figure in the Uncle Remus stories of the Southern United States?

2. What was the first successful English settlement on the mainland of North America?

3. When did the American Civil War begin?

4. Johnson took on the established dictionaries of European language and decisively exceeded them through how many years of work?

5. English is the official language of how many countries?

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