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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. The English language was formed through how many invasions?
(a) 4.
(b) 2.
(c) 5.
(d) 3.

2. How many people in America claim to be of Irish descent today?
(a) 20,000,000.
(b) 40,000,000.
(c) 5,000,000.
(d) 2,000,000.

3. When did the Angles, Saxons, and Jutes sail from Denmark and the German Coast into Britain?
(a) 340 B.C.
(b) 100 B.C.
(c) 449 A.D.
(d) 300 A.D.

4. When did James Cook sail to Queensland?
(a) 1586.
(b) 1665.
(c) 1770.
(d) 1901.

5. The culture of Ireland rose to a high point in what century?
(a) 10th.
(b) 14th.
(c) 6th.
(d) 12th.

Short Answer Questions

1. Julius Caesar and his armies conquered Britain when?

2. Newfoundland was founded in what year?

3. What is the capital of New Zealand?

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. What dialect is associated with the lower classes in England?

(see the answer key)

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