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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 9, The New Englishes.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How many people in America claim to be of Irish descent today?
(a) 40,000,000.
(b) 5,000,000.
(c) 20,000,000.
(d) 2,000,000.

2. The English conquered and warred with the Irish for over how many years?
(a) 600.
(b) 500.
(c) 200.
(d) 800.

3. Abraham Lincoln was America's ___ President.
(a) 17th.
(b) 18th.
(c) 15th.
(d) 16th.

4. When was Martin Luther King, Jr. assassinated?
(a) 1968.
(b) 1967.
(c) 1969.
(d) 1963.

5. What word that originated in the American West means a source of great and sudden wealth or luck; a spectacular windfall?
(a) Stampede.
(b) Discombobulate.
(c) Lollapalooza.
(d) Bonanza.

Short Answer Questions

1. 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?

2. Scots is one of the oldest and most interesting varieties of English dating back to which centuries?

3. In Chapter 2, The Mother Tongue, the authors claim that the horse and the what spread the English language and caused its divergence?

4. What term refers to African Americans who live in the Lowcountry region of South Carolina and Georgia, which includes both the coastal plain and the Sea Islands?

5. Which of the early Germanic tribes lived in Northern Germany?

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