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Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Ulster is composed of how many counties?
(a) 9.
(b) 15.
(c) 10.
(d) 5.

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

4. Bilingualism began in earnest in India in what year?
(a) 1665.
(b) 1835.
(c) 1950.
(d) 1782.

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

6. What word refers to a process of conversion of verbal or written elements of any other language into a more comprehensible English form for an English speaker or to become English in form or character?
(a) Literacy.
(b) Englishation.
(c) Anglicisation.
(d) Modernization.

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

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

9. What author noted that Southern women often sounded like their black slaves?
(a) Andrew Johnson.
(b) Samuel Clemens.
(c) Mark Twain.
(d) Charles Dickens.

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

11. What author wrote Leaves of Grass?
(a) David Thoreau.
(b) Robert Burns.
(c) Walt Whitman.
(d) William Butler Yeats.

12. 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?
(a) Ki-Swahili.
(b) Afrikaans.
(c) Krio.
(d) Singlish.

13. How many copies of Webster's Dictionary sold during the author's lifetime?
(a) 100,000,000.
(b) 90,000.
(c) 60,000,000.
(d) 80,000,000.

14. What word refers to a sudden, frenzied rush or headlong flight of a herd of frightened animals, especially cattle or horses?
(a) Stampede.
(b) Lollapalooza.
(c) Bonanza.
(d) Roundup.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. What word carried over from Cockney to Australian English?

4. When was Webster's Dictionary first published?

5. What is the capital of New Zealand?

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