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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How many copies of Webster's Dictionary sold during the author's lifetime?
(a) 60,000,000.
(b) 80,000,000.
(c) 90,000.
(d) 100,000,000.

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

3. When did Queen Victoria take the British crown?
(a) 1899.
(b) 1837.
(c) 1801.
(d) 1915.

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

5. What word refers to a process of conversion of verbal or written elements of any other language into a more comprehensible English form for an English speaker or to become English in form or character?
(a) Modernization.
(b) Anglicisation.
(c) Literacy.
(d) Englishation.

6. The denial of Afrikaans in South Africa sparked an explosive riot in what year?
(a) 1990.
(b) 1976.
(c) 1982.
(d) 1965.

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

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

9. What is the current population of Jamaica?
(a) 2.8 million.
(b) 3.2 million.
(c) 5 million.
(d) 6.4 million.

10. How many Irish emigrated to the United States in the nineteenth century?
(a) 3.5 million.
(b) 6.1 million.
(c) 2 million.
(d) 4.7 million.

11. When did the American Revolutionary War begin?
(a) 1699.
(b) 1850.
(c) 1790.
(d) 1775.

12. What is an English-based creole of Sierra Leone, a first language of the residents of Freetown and its environs, and a lingua franca elsewhere in the country?
(a) Singlish.
(b) Krio.
(c) Afrikaans.
(d) Ki-Swahili.

13. What American-originated word means an extraordinary or unusual thing, person, or event; an exceptional example or instance?
(a) Lollapalooza.
(b) Stampede.
(c) Bonanza.
(d) Pot-luck.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What ship did James Cook sail to Queensland?

2. What term means a people or person who use many languages?

3. What dialect is associated with the lower classes in England?

4. The Act of Union in what year brought Ireland into the United Kingdom, and English administrators started to impose English on the people?

5. From what century onwards did England begin domination of Ireland?

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