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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 8, The Echoes of an English Voice.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What language is associated with the Irish people?
(a) Gaelic.
(b) Latin.
(c) Norse.
(d) Welsh.

2. Who welcomed St. Augustine in England?
(a) King Charles.
(b) King Aethelbert.
(c) King Skaronn.
(d) King Ferdinand.

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

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

5. Julius Caesar and his armies conquered Britain when?
(a) 55 B.C.
(b) 100 B.C.
(c) 34 B.C.
(d) 44 B.C.

Short Answer Questions

1. In Cockney, the "w" is often exchanged for what sound?

2. What threatened Britain's Celtic chiefs after the withdrawal of the Romans?

3. The culture of Ireland rose to a high point in what century?

4. The Act of Union in what year brought Ireland into the United Kingdom, and English administrators started to impose English on the people?

5. The English language was formed through how many invasions?

(see the answer key)

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