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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What author noted that Southern women often sounded like their black slaves?
(a) Mark Twain.
(b) Samuel Clemens.
(c) Andrew Johnson.
(d) Charles Dickens.

2. From what century onwards did England begin domination of Ireland?
(a) 12th.
(b) 8th.
(c) 4th.
(d) 10th.

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

4. What term means a people or person who use many languages?
(a) Babylonian.
(b) Bilingual.
(c) Polyglot.
(d) Industrius.

5. What dialect is associated with the lower classes in England?
(a) Estuary.
(b) Cockney.
(c) Queen's English.
(d) RP.

6. The culture of Ireland rose to a high point in what century?
(a) 12th.
(b) 6th.
(c) 10th.
(d) 14th.

7. 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) Jamaica.
(b) Haiti.
(c) Puerto Rico.
(d) Barbados.

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

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

10. 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) Englishation.
(b) Anglicisation.
(c) Modernization.
(d) Literacy.

11. Who wrote Uncle Tom's Cabin?
(a) Harriet Beecher Stowe.
(b) Mark Twain.
(c) James McDougal.
(d) Samuel Johnson.

12. Ulster is composed of how many counties?
(a) 10.
(b) 15.
(c) 5.
(d) 9.

13. When did James Cook sail to Queensland?
(a) 1665.
(b) 1586.
(c) 1770.
(d) 1901.

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

15. When did the First World War begin?
(a) 1909.
(b) 1919.
(c) 1914.
(d) 1922.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is a term used for both dialects of English and English-based pidgins and creoles, and whose meaning depends considerably upon the context, and particularly the part of the world?

2. In what year did Jamaica become an English, and later a British, colony, known as "Jamaica"?

3. 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?

4. Abraham Lincoln was America's ___ President.

5. When did the Louisiana Purchase take place?

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