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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. By the turn of which century had English all but died out in Ireland?
(a) 20th.
(b) 17th.
(c) 19th.
(d) 16th.

2. How many blacks were in the United States when the Civil War began?
(a) 6 million.
(b) 4 million.
(c) 2 million.
(d) 3 million.

3. What dialect is associated with the lower classes in England?
(a) Estuary.
(b) Queen's English.
(c) RP.
(d) Cockney.

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

5. What American-originated word means an extraordinary or unusual thing, person, or event; an exceptional example or instance?
(a) Stampede.
(b) Lollapalooza.
(c) Bonanza.
(d) Pot-luck.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the capital of Jamaica?

2. What is the British spelling of the word "color"?

3. Ulster is composed of how many counties?

4. In what decade did Australian English come to be of interest in other English speaking countries?

5. 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?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

4. What do the authors attribute to Ireland's unique inflections and word stresses in dialect?

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. How has English developed among African nations?

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

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

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

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