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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What British author of Gulliver's Travels is known for being a master of two styles of satire: the Horatian and Juvenalian styles?
(a) Samuel Johnson.
(b) Jonathan Swift.
(c) Mark Twain.
(d) Daniel Webster.

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) 1658.
(b) 1803.
(c) 1775.
(d) 1900.

3. What was Mark Twain's real name?
(a) Samuel Clemens.
(b) Mark Stevenson.
(c) Johnathan Swift.
(d) Alexander Clemens.

4. What ship did James Cook sail to Queensland?
(a) The Queen Mary.
(b) The East India Company.
(c) The British General.
(d) The Endeavor.

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

6. Daniel Webster was a leader in what political party?
(a) Republican.
(b) Whigs.
(c) Labor.
(d) Tories.

7. What term refers to African Americans who live in the Lowcountry region of South Carolina and Georgia, which includes both the coastal plain and the Sea Islands?
(a) Haitian.
(b) Gullah.
(c) Zulu.
(d) Indican.

8. In Cockney, the "w" is often exchanged for what sound?
(a) "V."
(b) "Z."
(c) "F."
(d) "S."

9. What term refers to a member of the dark-skinned people who were the earliest inhabitants of Australia?
(a) Aborigine.
(b) Indians.
(c) Acatuna.
(d) Nintoona.

10. What is the capital of New Zealand?
(a) Oxford.
(b) Wellington.
(c) Sydney.
(d) Binghamshire.

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

12. The authors assert in Chapter 6, Black on White, that the black pidgins clearly date back to which century?
(a) Mid-fourteenth.
(b) Mid-fifteenth.
(c) Mid-sixteenth.
(d) Mid-seventeenth.

13. Which variant was most likely the first pidgin English?
(a) Jamaican.
(b) West African.
(c) Haitian.
(d) Cajun.

14. When was Martin Luther King, Jr. assassinated?
(a) 1963.
(b) 1969.
(c) 1967.
(d) 1968.

15. What word that originated in the American West means a source of great and sudden wealth or luck; a spectacular windfall?
(a) Bonanza.
(b) Stampede.
(c) Discombobulate.
(d) Lollapalooza.

Short Answer Questions

1. When did Jamaica regain complete independence?

2. 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?

3. What area of London was largely flattened in World War II?

4. Bilingualism began in earnest in India in what year?

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

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