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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What language is associated with the Irish people?
(a) Latin.
(b) Norse.
(c) Gaelic.
(d) Welsh.

2. When did the American Civil War begin?
(a) 1795.
(b) 1861.
(c) 1845.
(d) 1856.

3. 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.

4. What musical genre originated at the beginning of the 20th century in African American communities in the Southern United States from a confluence of African and European music traditions?
(a) Jazz.
(b) Bluegrass.
(c) Country.
(d) Rap.

5. What is the national language of Nigeria?
(a) Ki-Swahili.
(b) French.
(c) English.
(d) Afrikaans.

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

7. When did the British and East India Company establish outposts in India?
(a) 1550.
(b) 1870.
(c) 1600.
(d) 1750.

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

9. Where was the slave trade centered in Great Britain?
(a) Essex.
(b) Bristol.
(c) Ireland.
(d) London.

10. The English language in Ireland is still _____ and non-standardized, according to Robert McCrum.
(a) Ruralized.
(b) Structured.
(c) Elizabethan.
(d) Heightened.

11. When did the Louisiana Purchase take place?
(a) 1775.
(b) 1901.
(c) 1865.
(d) 1803.

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

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. 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?

3. What term refers to a variety of English spoken in Singapore, incorporating elements of Chinese and Malay?

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

5. 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?

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