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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. What is a simplified language that develops as a means of communication between two or more groups that do not have a language in common?
(a) Average.
(b) Simple.
(c) Pidgin.
(d) Common.

2. How many versions of The Story of English were published?
(a) 5.
(b) 8.
(c) 3.
(d) 6.

3. Many Canadians use what instead of the American "zee"?
(a) Zed.
(b) Cee.
(c) Zepha.
(d) Vee.

4. Thomas Macaulay was born in what year?
(a) 1800.
(b) 1901.
(c) 1795.
(d) 1600.

5. Slave ships that went to the Caribbean with the first slaves changed the language of the area entirely creating what variant?
(a) West Aftican Creole.
(b) Caribbean Creole.
(c) Cajun English.
(d) French Creole.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What does "RP" stand for?

3. Who is the author of the novel Oscar and Lucinda?

4. When did the British and East India Company establish outposts in India?

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

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