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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 9, The New Englishes.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What word carried over from Cockney to Australian English?
(a) Mate.
(b) Bro.
(c) Ello.
(d) Howdy.

2. How many blacks still speak the dialect of Gullah today?
(a) 200,000.
(b) 300,000.
(c) 100,000.
(d) 250,000.

3. What is the Church of Scotland's more common name?
(a) The Anglican.
(b) The Kirk.
(c) The Scotch Catholic.
(d) The Catholic.

4. What term refers to African Americans who live in the Lowcountry region of South Carolina and Georgia, which includes both the coastal plain and the Sea Islands?
(a) Gullah.
(b) Haitian.
(c) Indican.
(d) Zulu.

5. What do the authors claim denote information about a speaker's life and career and explain community values?
(a) Styles.
(b) Vocabularies.
(c) Languages.
(d) Accents.

Short Answer Questions

1. What Latin-speaking philosopher and theologian was a major figure in the development of Western Christianity?

2. Which of the early Germanic tribes had speech that was Germanic and they lived Denmark?

3. What does "RP" stand for?

4. What is a term used for both dialects of English and English-based pidgins and creoles, and whose meaning depends considerably upon the context, and particularly the part of the world?

5. What was the first English-speaking official colony in North America?

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