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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When did Jamaica regain complete independence?
(a) 1889.
(b) 1948.
(c) 1853.
(d) 1962.

2. Irish culture is a mixture of Celtic and what?
(a) New World.
(b) Anglo-Saxon.
(c) East Indian.
(d) Germanic.

3. 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) British Loyalist.
(b) Montreal Loyalist.
(c) United Empire Loyalist.
(d) Canadian Loyalist.

4. What word refers to a sudden, frenzied rush or headlong flight of a herd of frightened animals, especially cattle or horses?
(a) Roundup.
(b) Stampede.
(c) Lollapalooza.
(d) Bonanza.

5. By the turn of which century had English all but died out in Ireland?
(a) 17th.
(b) 19th.
(c) 16th.
(d) 20th.

6. Who was a central figure in the Uncle Remus stories of the Southern United States?
(a) Brer Rabbit.
(b) Johnny Appleseed.
(c) Butler Johnson.
(d) Pecan Pete.

7. 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) French Creole.
(c) Caribbean Creole.
(d) Cajun English.

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

9. What American-originated word means to confuse or disconcert; upset; frustrate?
(a) Stampede.
(b) Lollapalooza.
(c) Bonanza.
(d) Discombobulate.

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

11. What is the British spelling of the word "color"?
(a) Collor.
(b) Colour.
(c) Culor.
(d) Corlor.

12. The English conquered and warred with the Irish for over how many years?
(a) 800.
(b) 200.
(c) 600.
(d) 500.

13. Kenya, Uganda, and Tanzania speak what primary language?
(a) Afrikaans.
(b) Ki-Swahili.
(c) Tulu.
(d) Nigerian.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. In order to find early Black American English, one must travel to the American South, especially Charlestown and where?

3. What was the first English-speaking official colony in North America?

4. 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?

5. When did the American Revolutionary War begin?

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