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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 term refers to African Americans who live in the Lowcountry region of South Carolina and Georgia, which includes both the coastal plain and the Sea Islands?
(a) Haitian.
(b) Gullah.
(c) Zulu.
(d) Indican.

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

3. Many Canadians use what instead of the American "zee"?
(a) Cee.
(b) Vee.
(c) Zepha.
(d) Zed.

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

5. From what century onwards did England begin domination of Ireland?
(a) 10th.
(b) 12th.
(c) 8th.
(d) 4th.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. In what decade did a rebellious side of black liberation come together in New Orleans?

3. What is the capital of Jamaica?

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

5. How many Irish emigrated to the United States in the nineteenth century?

Short Essay Questions

1. What do the authors write of the Canadian accent in Chapter 7, Pioneers! O Pioneers!?

2. What is the source of inspiration for Irish literature? When did Irish culture rise to its high point?

3. When was Webster's Dictionary first published? How many copies were sold in his lifetime?

4. What effect did World War II have on the Cockney language? What other world events affected it?

5. How many Americans are of Irish descent? What association do Westerners have with Ireland's history?

6. When and how did Australian English develop?

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

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

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

10. When did the Act of Union take place in Irish/English history? What effect did it have on English?

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