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

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

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

4. Daniel Webster was a leader in what political party?
(a) Labor.
(b) Republican.
(c) Tories.
(d) Whigs.

5. 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) Indican.
(b) Haitian.
(c) Gullah.
(d) Zulu.

Short Answer Questions

1. What language is associated with the Irish people?

2. When did the British and East India Company establish outposts in India?

3. Slave ships that went to the Caribbean with the first slaves changed the language of the area entirely creating what variant?

4. How many blacks were in the United States when the Civil War began?

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

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. What has led to the further development of English in the Far East?

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

5. When did black pidgin languages first originate and why?

6. How has English developed among African nations?

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

8. How was Cockney stereotypically viewed in London? What governmental changes standardized it?

9. When was English first introduced to India? What led to its development there?

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

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