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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 7, Pioneers! O Pioneers!.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Northern Germany, Denmark, and the Netherlands produced their own language tree that divided into what and German?
(a) English.
(b) Norse.
(c) Welsh.
(d) Celtic.

2. When did Queen Elizabeth die?
(a) 1595.
(b) 1603.
(c) 1650.
(d) 1600.

3. Whose followers are known as Lollards, a somewhat rebellious movement, which preached anticlerical and biblically-centered reforms?
(a) Samuel Johnson's.
(b) Daniel Webster's.
(c) James Calvin's.
(d) John Wycliffe's.

4. The people of what country have recently developed a fanatical desire to learn English, and English is vital in many developing countries, according to the author?
(a) Israel.
(b) China.
(c) Korea.
(d) Germany.

5. What is a term used for both dialects of English and English-based pidgins and creoles, and whose meaning depends considerably upon the context, and particularly the part of the world?
(a) Pidgin English.
(b) Black English.
(c) Nonstandard English.
(d) Native English.

Short Answer Questions

1. When did James I die?

2. How many people in America claim to be of Irish descent today?

3. What word that originated in the American West means a source of great and sudden wealth or luck; a spectacular windfall?

4. How many Irish emigrated to the United States in the nineteenth century?

5. In order to find early Black American English, one must travel to the American South, especially Charlestown and where?

(see the answer key)

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