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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Epilogue, Next Year's Words.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In what year did Jamaica become an English, and later a British, colony, known as "Jamaica"?
(a) 1752.
(b) 1655.
(c) 1802.
(d) 1492.

2. The Act of Union in what year brought Ireland into the United Kingdom, and English administrators started to impose English on the people?
(a) 1775.
(b) 1803.
(c) 1658.
(d) 1900.

3. What island nation situated in the western area of the North Atlantic Ocean and east of the Windward Islands and the Caribbean Sea has an Irish community today?
(a) Puerto Rico.
(b) Jamaica.
(c) Barbados.
(d) Haiti.

4. What word refers to a cultural item that is transmitted by repetition in a manner analogous to the biological transmission of genes?
(a) Idiom.
(b) Metaphor.
(c) Virus.
(d) Meme.

5. Tyndale translated the Bible from Greek in what year?
(a) 1559.
(b) 1603.
(c) 1525.
(d) 1650.

Short Answer Questions

1. By what year were nearly half of the English literate, according to Chapter 3, A Muse of Fire?

2. When did James I lead a council of bishops and Puritan divines to create the King James Bible?

3. What American-originated word means an extraordinary or unusual thing, person, or event; an exceptional example or instance?

4. Who welcomed St. Augustine in England?

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

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