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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. Many Canadians use what instead of the American "zee"?
(a) Cee.
(b) Vee.
(c) Zepha.
(d) Zed.

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

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

4. Who wrote Treasure Island?
(a) Robert Louis Stevenson.
(b) Sir Walter Scott.
(c) Robert Burns.
(d) William Shakespeare.

5. How many Irish emigrated to the United States in the nineteenth century?
(a) 3.5 million.
(b) 4.7 million.
(c) 2 million.
(d) 6.1 million.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What was the first English-speaking official colony in North America?

3. Who is listed as the Executive Producer of the television series The Story of English?

4. What term refers to a member of the dark-skinned people who were the earliest inhabitants of Australia?

5. Adventures of Huckleberry Finn was first published in what year?

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