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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. What author noted that Southern women often sounded like their black slaves?
(a) Charles Dickens.
(b) Samuel Clemens.
(c) Andrew Johnson.
(d) Mark Twain.

2. What is an honorific name given to those American Loyalists who resettled in British North America and other British Colonies as an act of fealty to King George III after the British defeat in the American Revolutionary War?
(a) United Empire Loyalist.
(b) British Loyalist.
(c) Montreal Loyalist.
(d) Canadian Loyalist.

3. What Latin-speaking philosopher and theologian was a major figure in the development of Western Christianity?
(a) St. Peter.
(b) St. Augustine.
(c) St. Patrick.
(d) St. Mark.

4. The Scots of the Lowlands first spoke a form of English brought by the Angles of Northumbria mixed with four ethnic groups that invaded during what period?
(a) The Inquisition.
(b) The Rensaissance.
(c) The Dark Ages.
(d) The Restoration.

5. Julius Caesar and his armies conquered Britain when?
(a) 44 B.C.
(b) 100 B.C.
(c) 55 B.C.
(d) 34 B.C.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Which novelist defined English language fanatics as "Snoots"?

3. Abraham Lincoln was America's ___ President.

4. When did the American Revolutionary War begin?

5. When was Ivanhoe written?

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