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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Which variant was most likely the first pidgin English?
(a) Jamaican.
(b) West African.
(c) Haitian.
(d) Cajun.

3. What term is also known as Irish English and is the dialect of English spoken in Ireland?
(a) Irish-English.
(b) Hiberno-English.
(c) Anglo-English.
(d) Gaelic-English.

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

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

6. In Cockney, the "w" is often exchanged for what sound?
(a) "Z."
(b) "F."
(c) "V."
(d) "S."

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

8. Abraham Lincoln was America's ___ President.
(a) 18th.
(b) 16th.
(c) 15th.
(d) 17th.

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

10. Kenya, Uganda, and Tanzania speak what primary language?
(a) Ki-Swahili.
(b) Nigerian.
(c) Tulu.
(d) Afrikaans.

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

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

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. The English language in Ireland is still _____ and non-standardized, according to Robert McCrum.

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

3. Where was the slave trade centered in Great Britain?

4. When was Webster's Dictionary first published?

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

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