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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. How many blacks still speak the dialect of Gullah today?
(a) 300,000.
(b) 100,000.
(c) 200,000.
(d) 250,000.

2. In what year did the English Reformation begin?
(a) 1598.
(b) 1601.
(c) 1534.
(d) 1555.

3. What is the traditional site of disembarkation of William Bradford and the Mayflower Pilgrims?
(a) Ellis Island.
(b) Philadelphia.
(c) Nina Maria.
(d) Plymouth Rock.

4. The culture of Ireland rose to a high point in what century?
(a) 6th.
(b) 14th.
(c) 10th.
(d) 12th.

5. Who wrote The American Language?
(a) William Cran.
(b) H.L. Mencken.
(c) Daniel Webster.
(d) Dr. Samuel Johnson.

Short Answer Questions

1. What language is associated with the Irish people?

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

3. How many Germans have emigrated to the United States since 1776?

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

5. Who were among the first English-speaking migrants to the west and their descendants live in Cornwall, Scotland, Ireland, Wales, and Brittany?

(see the answer key)

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