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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 an honorific name given to those American Loyalists who resettled in British North America and other British Colonies as an act of fealty to King George III after the British defeat in the American Revolutionary War?
(a) British Loyalist.
(b) Montreal Loyalist.
(c) Canadian Loyalist.
(d) United Empire Loyalist.

2. In what decade did Australian English come to be of interest in other English speaking countries?
(a) 1960s.
(b) 1980s.
(c) 1970s.
(d) 1990s.

3. What is the capital of New Zealand?
(a) Wellington.
(b) Binghamshire.
(c) Oxford.
(d) Sydney.

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

5. What is a term used for both dialects of English and English-based pidgins and creoles, and whose meaning depends considerably upon the context, and particularly the part of the world?
(a) Black English.
(b) Nonstandard English.
(c) Pidgin English.
(d) Native English.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is an English-based creole of Sierra Leone, a first language of the residents of Freetown and its environs, and a lingua franca elsewhere in the country?

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

3. Irish culture is a mixture of Celtic and what?

4. Many Canadians use what instead of the American "zee"?

5. The Act of Union in what year brought Ireland into the United Kingdom, and English administrators started to impose English on the people?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

4. When and how did Australian English develop?

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

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

7. What words developed from the spread of Americans to the West?

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

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

10. How have British and American accents diverged over time, according to the authors in Chapter 7, Pioneers! O Pioneers!?

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