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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 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?
(a) The Restoration.
(b) The Dark Ages.
(c) The Inquisition.
(d) The Rensaissance.

2. The Anglo-Saxon language received a major boost when Christianity brought an enormous Latin vocabulary starting in what year?
(a) 283 B.C.
(b) 238 A.D.
(c) 597 A.D.
(d) 359 A.D.

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

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

5. Who is the author of Ivanhoe?
(a) Sir Walter Scott.
(b) Andrew Webster.
(c) Robert Burns.
(d) Samuel Johnson.

Short Answer Questions

1. When did James I die?

2. What was the first successful English settlement on the mainland of North America?

3. Who was a central figure in the Uncle Remus stories of the Southern United States?

4. Which of the four ethnic groups that invaded Scotland during the Dark Ages united the kingdom?

5. Who is Scotland's most celebrated poet?

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