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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. 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?
(a) Gullah.
(b) Haitian.
(c) Zulu.
(d) Indican.

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

3. What word refers to a process of conversion of verbal or written elements of any other language into a more comprehensible English form for an English speaker or to become English in form or character?
(a) Literacy.
(b) Englishation.
(c) Modernization.
(d) Anglicisation.

4. In order to find early Black American English, one must travel to the American South, especially Charlestown and where?
(a) Louisiana.
(b) Mississippi.
(c) Georgia.
(d) South Carolina.

5. How many blacks were in the United States when the Civil War began?
(a) 4 million.
(b) 3 million.
(c) 2 million.
(d) 6 million.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. The first Dictionary of the English Language contained over how many definitions?

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

4. The number of books in England did what after the invention of the printing press?

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

(see the answer key)

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