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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. In order to find early Black American English, one must travel to the American South, especially Charlestown and where?
(a) Louisiana.
(b) Georgia.
(c) Mississippi.
(d) South Carolina.

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

5. 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) Pidgin English.
(b) Black English.
(c) Nonstandard English.
(d) Native English.

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

7. What was Mark Twain's real name?
(a) Mark Stevenson.
(b) Johnathan Swift.
(c) Alexander Clemens.
(d) Samuel Clemens.

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

9. Slave ships that went to the Caribbean with the first slaves changed the language of the area entirely creating what variant?
(a) Cajun English.
(b) Caribbean Creole.
(c) West Aftican Creole.
(d) French Creole.

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

11. What area of London was largely flattened in World War II?
(a) South End.
(b) West End.
(c) East End.
(d) North End.

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

13. 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) Country.
(c) Rap.
(d) Bluegrass.

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

15. Adventures of Huckleberry Finn was first published in what year?
(a) 1774.
(b) 1905.
(c) 1884.
(d) 1922.

Short Answer Questions

1. When did the Louisiana Purchase take place?

2. What author wrote Leaves of Grass?

3. What is the capital of Jamaica?

4. 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?

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

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