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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. In what year did Jamaica become an English, and later a British, colony, known as "Jamaica"?
(a) 1655.
(b) 1802.
(c) 1752.
(d) 1492.

4. What popular singer brought recognition to Jamaica?
(a) Lou Reed.
(b) Desi Arnaz.
(c) Jimi Hendrix.
(d) Bob Marley.

5. What was a common form of passing language down from one generation to the next in Irish culture?
(a) Storytelling.
(b) Written word.
(c) Shamanic rites.
(d) Baptism.

6. By the turn of which century had English all but died out in Ireland?
(a) 19th.
(b) 17th.
(c) 16th.
(d) 20th.

7. What word carried over from Cockney to Australian English?
(a) Howdy.
(b) Ello.
(c) Mate.
(d) Bro.

8. What American-originated word means to confuse or disconcert; upset; frustrate?
(a) Bonanza.
(b) Stampede.
(c) Lollapalooza.
(d) Discombobulate.

9. The United States is how many times the size of the United Kingdom?
(a) 30.
(b) 60.
(c) 100.
(d) 10.

10. How many people in America claim to be of Irish descent today?
(a) 2,000,000.
(b) 5,000,000.
(c) 40,000,000.
(d) 20,000,000.

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

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

13. Newfoundland was founded in what year?
(a) 1714.
(b) 1588.
(c) 1595.
(d) 1612.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. The denial of Afrikaans in South Africa sparked an explosive riot in what year?

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

4. The Act of Union in what year brought Ireland into the United Kingdom, and English administrators started to impose English on the people?

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

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