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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 6, Black on White.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Which of the following words is attributed to Shakespeare's origination?
(a) Death.
(b) Assassination.
(c) President.
(d) Company.

2. Global English is either British or what?
(a) Western.
(b) Eastern.
(c) American.
(d) Colonialized.

3. By what year were nearly half of the English literate, according to Chapter 3, A Muse of Fire?
(a) 1600.
(b) 1500.
(c) 1400.
(d) 1550.

4. What is the name of the dialect generally associated with the British working class?
(a) RP.
(b) Estuary.
(c) Cockney.
(d) Queen's English.

5. Approximately how many people speak English as their first language today?
(a) 800 million.
(b) 375 million.
(c) 654 million.
(d) 230 million.

Short Answer Questions

1. When did James I die?

2. The number of books in England did what after the invention of the printing press?

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. How many blacks still speak the dialect of Gullah today?

5. What is a simplified language that develops as a means of communication between two or more groups that do not have a language in common?

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