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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Thomas Macaulay was born in what year?
(a) 1600.
(b) 1800.
(c) 1795.
(d) 1901.

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

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

5. 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) Montreal Loyalist.
(b) British Loyalist.
(c) United Empire Loyalist.
(d) Canadian Loyalist.

6. 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) Puerto Rico.
(c) Barbados.
(d) Haiti.

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

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

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

10. What was the first English-speaking official colony in North America?
(a) New Amsterdam.
(b) New York.
(c) New Deutchland.
(d) Newfoundland.

11. 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.

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

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

14. In what decade did a rebellious side of black liberation come together in New Orleans?
(a) 1850s.
(b) 1780s.
(c) 1870s.
(d) 1950s.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. The authors assert in Chapter 6, Black on White, that the black pidgins clearly date back to which century?

2. What term is also known as Irish English and is the dialect of English spoken in Ireland?

3. What American-originated word means to confuse or disconcert; upset; frustrate?

4. What language is associated with the Irish people?

5. Newfoundland was founded in what year?

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