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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. Who wrote Uncle Tom's Cabin?
(a) Harriet Beecher Stowe.
(b) James McDougal.
(c) Samuel Johnson.
(d) Mark Twain.

2. What is considered the highest level of standardization of English, according to the authors in Chapter 1, An English-Speaking World?
(a) Jamaican English.
(b) Queen's English.
(c) Cockney English.
(d) Estuary English.

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

4. 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?
(a) Nonstandard English.
(b) Pidgin English.
(c) Native English.
(d) Black English.

5. How many quotations were in the original Dictionary of the English Language?
(a) 300,000.
(b) 114,000.
(c) 120,000.
(d) 100,000.

Short Answer Questions

1. Slave ships that went to the Caribbean with the first slaves changed the language of the area entirely creating what variant?

2. In what year did the English Reformation begin?

3. Adventures of Huckleberry Finn was first published in what year?

4. Approximately how many people speak English as their first language today?

5. 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?

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