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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What is the British spelling of the word "color"?
(a) Colour.
(b) Collor.
(c) Corlor.
(d) Culor.

3. What is the national language of Nigeria?
(a) English.
(b) Afrikaans.
(c) French.
(d) Ki-Swahili.

4. When did the American Civil War begin?
(a) 1845.
(b) 1861.
(c) 1795.
(d) 1856.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Who was a central figure in the Uncle Remus stories of the Southern United States?

2. How many people in America claim to be of Irish descent today?

3. What ship did James Cook sail to Queensland?

4. By the turn of which century had English all but died out in Ireland?

5. Newfoundland was founded in what year?

Short Essay Questions

1. What international influences came to the English language from New York?

2. How has English developed among African nations?

3. How did appreciation for the Australian dialect change in the 20th century? Why?

4. What impact did Black English have on whites in the American South?

5. How did Black English develop in the American South? When did Black English begin to appear in literature?

6. Where is the Irish language preserved in the New World? Where did the Irish immigrate to in America?

7. Following the domination of the Irish by England, what splits arose over religion?

8. Where was the slave trade centered in England? How did blacks and whites communicate?

9. What do the authors assert has changed in the way Black English is viewed in recent times?

10. What effect did Webster have on differentiating British and American English standardization?

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