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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.
Short Answer Questions
1. Which variant was most likely the first pidgin English?
2. What was the first English-speaking official colony in North America?
3. The culture of Ireland rose to a high point in what century?
4. In what decade did Australian English come to be of interest in other English speaking countries?
5. Thomas Macaulay was born in what year?
Short Essay Questions
1. How has English developed among African nations?
2. How many Americans are of Irish descent? What association do Westerners have with Ireland's history?
3. What effect did World War II have on the Cockney language? What other world events affected it?
4. Following the domination of the Irish by England, what splits arose over religion?
5. How did Black English develop in the American South? When did Black English begin to appear in literature?
6. What do the authors attribute to Ireland's unique inflections and word stresses in dialect?
7. What do the authors write of the Jamaican dialect in Chapter 9, The New Englishes?
8. How have British and American accents diverged over time, according to the authors in Chapter 7, Pioneers! O Pioneers!?
9. Where was the slave trade centered in England? How did blacks and whites communicate?
10. When did black pidgin languages first originate and why?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Describe Daniel Webster's political views and how these influenced his dictionary. What political parties was Webster associated with? What political reactions resulted from the standardization of American English?
Essay Topic 2
What was notable about the first edition of The Story of English? What was it published alongside? What was the public reaction to the linguists' assertions?
Essay Topic 3
Describe the history of Ireland's struggles with England. When did the domination of Ireland begin? What were the consequences? How was language affected?
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