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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. What is the first of the five points of Calvinism?
(a) Love of God.
(b) Forgiveness.
(c) Release of sin.
(d) Total depravity.

2. What author noted that Southern women often sounded like their black slaves?
(a) Andrew Johnson.
(b) Charles Dickens.
(c) Samuel Clemens.
(d) Mark Twain.

3. Where was Shakespeare born and raised?
(a) Wilforshire.
(b) London.
(c) Stratford-upon-Avon.
(d) Essex.

4. The authors assert in Chapter 6, Black on White, that the black pidgins clearly date back to which century?
(a) Mid-sixteenth.
(b) Mid-fifteenth.
(c) Mid-fourteenth.
(d) Mid-seventeenth.

5. Who were among the first English-speaking migrants to the west and their descendants live in Cornwall, Scotland, Ireland, Wales, and Brittany?
(a) The Indians.
(b) The Germans.
(c) The Romans.
(d) The Celts.

Short Answer Questions

1. How many quotations were in the original Dictionary of the English Language?

2. What do the authors claim denote information about a speaker's life and career and explain community values?

3. In what year did the English Reformation begin?

4. How many blacks were in the United States when the Civil War began?

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

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