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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. The establishment of what was an important moment for English as word choices had to be made for standard broadcasting?
(a) NBC.
(b) CBS.
(c) PBS.
(d) BBC.

2. When was Jonathan Swift born?
(a) 1695.
(b) 1595.
(c) 1667.
(d) 1675.

3. Which of the early Germanic tribes had speech that was Germanic and they lived Denmark?
(a) Celti.
(b) Anglii.
(c) Buchi.
(d) Frisii.

4. Who was a central figure in the Uncle Remus stories of the Southern United States?
(a) Butler Johnson.
(b) Brer Rabbit.
(c) Pecan Pete.
(d) Johnny Appleseed.

5. Who initiated the English Reformation?
(a) Queen Elizabeth.
(b) King Henry VIII.
(c) King Leopold I.
(d) King George II.

Short Answer Questions

1. 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?

2. Johnson took on the established dictionaries of European language and decisively exceeded them through how many years of work?

3. Where was the slave trade centered in Great Britain?

4. The Scots of the Lowlands first spoke a form of English brought by the Angles of Northumbria mixed with four ethnic groups that invaded during what period?

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

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