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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. Which variant was most likely the first pidgin English?
(a) Cajun.
(b) Jamaican.
(c) West African.
(d) Haitian.

2. What language did the Celts speak?
(a) Germanic.
(b) Esotian.
(c) Gaelic.
(d) Entoarian.

3. In Chapter 2, The Mother Tongue, the authors claim that the horse and the what spread the English language and caused its divergence?
(a) Fire.
(b) Money.
(c) Poetry.
(d) Wheel.

4. What is a simplified language that develops as a means of communication between two or more groups that do not have a language in common?
(a) Simple.
(b) Common.
(c) Average.
(d) Pidgin.

5. After World War II, which national economy sent multinational corporations across the world and into NATO and the UN?
(a) French.
(b) American.
(c) British.
(d) Canadian.

Short Answer Questions

1. When was Ivanhoe written?

2. When did James I lead a council of bishops and Puritan divines to create the King James Bible?

3. When did the American Civil War begin?

4. The authors assert in Chapter 6, Black on White, that the black pidgins clearly date back to which century?

5. Approximately how many people speak English as their first language today?

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