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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. When did the Angles, Saxons, and Jutes sail from Denmark and the German Coast into Britain?
(a) 449 A.D.
(b) 340 B.C.
(c) 300 A.D.
(d) 100 B.C.

2. When did James I lead a council of bishops and Puritan divines to create the King James Bible?
(a) 1616.
(b) 1601.
(c) 1630.
(d) 1604.

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

4. Slave ships that went to the Caribbean with the first slaves changed the language of the area entirely creating what variant?
(a) West Aftican Creole.
(b) French Creole.
(c) Cajun English.
(d) Caribbean Creole.

5. Linguists know that languages spoken by around how much of humanity came from a common Indo-European source?
(a) One fifth.
(b) One third.
(c) One fourth.
(d) One half.

Short Answer Questions

1. What threatened Britain's Celtic chiefs after the withdrawal of the Romans?

2. Which of the early Germanic tribes had speech that was Germanic and they lived Denmark?

3. What Latin-speaking philosopher and theologian was a major figure in the development of Western Christianity?

4. When did Elizabeth become Queen of England?

5. How many people spoke English in Shakespeare's time?

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