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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. The Act of Union in what year brought Ireland into the United Kingdom, and English administrators started to impose English on the people?
(a) 1658.
(b) 1803.
(c) 1900.
(d) 1775.

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

3. What word that originated in the American West means a source of great and sudden wealth or luck; a spectacular windfall?
(a) Stampede.
(b) Bonanza.
(c) Discombobulate.
(d) Lollapalooza.

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

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

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

7. When did the American Revolutionary War begin?
(a) 1850.
(b) 1790.
(c) 1775.
(d) 1699.

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

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

10. How many blacks still speak the dialect of Gullah today?
(a) 250,000.
(b) 200,000.
(c) 300,000.
(d) 100,000.

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

12. What British author of Gulliver's Travels is known for being a master of two styles of satire: the Horatian and Juvenalian styles?
(a) Daniel Webster.
(b) Mark Twain.
(c) Jonathan Swift.
(d) Samuel Johnson.

13. When did Queen Victoria take the British crown?
(a) 1899.
(b) 1801.
(c) 1837.
(d) 1915.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. 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?

2. What language is associated with the Irish people?

3. The United States is how many times the size of the United Kingdom?

4. 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?

5. What was Mark Twain's real name?

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