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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. The United States is how many times the size of the United Kingdom?
(a) 100.
(b) 10.
(c) 30.
(d) 60.
2. Slave ships that went to the Caribbean with the first slaves changed the language of the area entirely creating what variant?
(a) Cajun English.
(b) West Aftican Creole.
(c) French Creole.
(d) Caribbean Creole.
3. Kenya, Uganda, and Tanzania speak what primary language?
(a) Tulu.
(b) Nigerian.
(c) Afrikaans.
(d) Ki-Swahili.
4. What area of London was largely flattened in World War II?
(a) North End.
(b) East End.
(c) South End.
(d) West End.
5. The English language in Ireland is still _____ and non-standardized, according to Robert McCrum.
(a) Ruralized.
(b) Structured.
(c) Elizabethan.
(d) Heightened.
Short Answer Questions
1. Which variant was most likely the first pidgin English?
2. How many copies of Webster's Dictionary sold during the author's lifetime?
3. What is the British spelling of the word "color"?
4. What is the capital of Jamaica?
5. What word refers to a sudden, frenzied rush or headlong flight of a herd of frightened animals, especially cattle or horses?
Short Essay Questions
1. What impact did Black English have on whites in the American South?
2. When did black pidgin languages first originate and why?
3. What international influences came to the English language from New York?
4. What do the authors write of the Jamaican dialect in Chapter 9, The New Englishes?
5. What do the authors assert has changed in the way Black English is viewed in recent times?
6. How did appreciation for the Australian dialect change in the 20th century? Why?
7. How did Black English develop in the American South? When did Black English begin to appear in literature?
8. What effect did World War II have on the Cockney language? What other world events affected it?
9. Where was the slave trade centered in England? How did blacks and whites communicate?
10. When and how did Australian English develop?
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