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

2. 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) Modernization.
(b) Englishation.
(c) Literacy.
(d) Anglicisation.

3. What ship did James Cook sail to Queensland?
(a) The British General.
(b) The East India Company.
(c) The Endeavor.
(d) The Queen Mary.

4. The English conquered and warred with the Irish for over how many years?
(a) 600.
(b) 500.
(c) 200.
(d) 800.

5. The denial of Afrikaans in South Africa sparked an explosive riot in what year?
(a) 1965.
(b) 1982.
(c) 1976.
(d) 1990.

Short Answer Questions

1. Julius Caesar and his armies conquered Britain when?

2. How many people in America claim to be of Irish descent today?

3. When did Queen Victoria take the British crown?

4. What term is also known as Irish English and is the dialect of English spoken in Ireland?

5. The Anglo-Saxon language received a major boost when Christianity brought an enormous Latin vocabulary starting in what year?

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