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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What was the first English-speaking official colony in North America?
(a) New Deutchland.
(b) New York.
(c) New Amsterdam.
(d) Newfoundland.

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

3. When did the Louisiana Purchase take place?
(a) 1865.
(b) 1901.
(c) 1803.
(d) 1775.

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

5. What popular singer brought recognition to Jamaica?
(a) Lou Reed.
(b) Jimi Hendrix.
(c) Desi Arnaz.
(d) Bob Marley.

Short Answer Questions

1. The United States is how many times the size of the United Kingdom?

2. How many blacks were in the United States when the Civil War began?

3. 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?

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?

5. What island nation situated in the western area of the North Atlantic Ocean and east of the Windward Islands and the Caribbean Sea has an Irish community today?

Short Essay Questions

1. How has English developed among African nations?

2. When was English first introduced to India? What led to its development there?

3. What has led to the further development of English in the Far East?

4. When did the Act of Union take place in Irish/English history? What effect did it have on English?

5. What impact did Black English have on whites in the American South?

6. What is the source of inspiration for Irish literature? When did Irish culture rise to its high point?

7. When and how did Australian English develop?

8. What international influences came to the English language from New York?

9. Where is the Irish language preserved in the New World? Where did the Irish immigrate to in America?

10. When did black pidgin languages first originate and why?

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