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

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

3. How many blacks still speak the dialect of Gullah today?
(a) 300,000.
(b) 200,000.
(c) 100,000.
(d) 250,000.

4. Old English has barely how many Celtic words?
(a) 20.
(b) 30.
(c) 12.
(d) 10.

5. What was the first successful English settlement on the mainland of North America?
(a) Washington D.C.
(b) Jamestown.
(c) New York.
(d) Cooperstown.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the Church of Scotland's more common name?

2. When did the Angles, Saxons, and Jutes sail from Denmark and the German Coast into Britain?

3. 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?

4. Northern Germany, Denmark, and the Netherlands produced their own language tree that divided into what and German?

5. Who published the Dictionary of the English Language in 1755?

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