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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What term refers to a variety of English spoken in Singapore, incorporating elements of Chinese and Malay?
(a) Ki-Swahili.
(b) Singlish.
(c) Afrikaans.
(d) East English.

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

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

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

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

6. How many Germans have emigrated to the United States since 1776?
(a) 6 million.
(b) 2 million.
(c) 14 million.
(d) 7 million.

7. Initially what percentage of Australians were English convicts?
(a) 10%.
(b) 40%.
(c) 99%.
(d) 87%.

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

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

10. 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) Canadian Loyalist.
(c) Montreal Loyalist.
(d) United Empire Loyalist.

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

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

13. 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?
(a) Nonstandard English.
(b) Black English.
(c) Native English.
(d) Pidgin English.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. In Cockney, the "w" is often exchanged for what sound?

2. What is the capital of New Zealand?

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

4. What is the capital of Jamaica?

5. What was a common form of passing language down from one generation to the next in Irish culture?

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