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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. The Act of Union in what year brought Ireland into the United Kingdom, and English administrators started to impose English on the people?
(a) 1775.
(b) 1900.
(c) 1803.
(d) 1658.

2. What term is also known as Irish English and is the dialect of English spoken in Ireland?
(a) Hiberno-English.
(b) Gaelic-English.
(c) Anglo-English.
(d) Irish-English.

3. 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) Zulu.
(c) Haitian.
(d) Indican.

4. What word refers to a process of conversion of verbal or written elements of any other language into a more comprehensible English form for an English speaker or to become English in form or character?
(a) Englishation.
(b) Anglicisation.
(c) Modernization.
(d) Literacy.

5. When did the American Civil War begin?
(a) 1795.
(b) 1845.
(c) 1856.
(d) 1861.

6. How many blacks were in the United States when the Civil War began?
(a) 4 million.
(b) 6 million.
(c) 3 million.
(d) 2 million.

7. What was a common form of passing language down from one generation to the next in Irish culture?
(a) Shamanic rites.
(b) Written word.
(c) Storytelling.
(d) Baptism.

8. Who was a central figure in the Uncle Remus stories of the Southern United States?
(a) Pecan Pete.
(b) Johnny Appleseed.
(c) Butler Johnson.
(d) Brer Rabbit.

9. In what decade did a rebellious side of black liberation come together in New Orleans?
(a) 1780s.
(b) 1850s.
(c) 1950s.
(d) 1870s.

10. What term refers to a member of the dark-skinned people who were the earliest inhabitants of Australia?
(a) Aborigine.
(b) Indians.
(c) Nintoona.
(d) Acatuna.

11. 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?
(a) Black English.
(b) Nonstandard English.
(c) Native English.
(d) Pidgin English.

12. Irish culture is a mixture of Celtic and what?
(a) East Indian.
(b) Anglo-Saxon.
(c) New World.
(d) Germanic.

13. Daniel Webster was a leader in what political party?
(a) Tories.
(b) Labor.
(c) Republican.
(d) Whigs.

14. What was Mark Twain's real name?
(a) Johnathan Swift.
(b) Mark Stevenson.
(c) Alexander Clemens.
(d) Samuel Clemens.

15. The United States is how many times the size of the United Kingdom?
(a) 100.
(b) 10.
(c) 30.
(d) 60.

Short Answer Questions

1. What language is associated with the Irish people?

2. Adventures of Huckleberry Finn was first published in what year?

3. What musical genre originated at the beginning of the 20th century in African American communities in the Southern United States from a confluence of African and European music traditions?

4. What word carried over from Cockney to Australian English?

5. What term means a people or person who use many languages?

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