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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. How many blacks still speak the dialect of Gullah today?
2. What musical genre originated at the beginning of the 20th century in African American communities in the Southern United States from a confluence of African and European music traditions?
3. What word refers to a process of conversion of verbal or written elements of any other language into a more comprehensible English form for an English speaker or to become English in form or character?
4. When did James Cook sail to Queensland?
5. What dialect is associated with the lower classes in England?
Short Essay Questions
1. What has led to the further development of English in the Far East?
2. What do the authors write of the Jamaican dialect in Chapter 9, The New Englishes?
3. How was Cockney stereotypically viewed in London? What governmental changes standardized it?
4. When and how did Australian English develop?
5. What international influences came to the English language from New York?
6. How has English developed among African nations?
7. Following the domination of the Irish by England, what splits arose over religion?
8. How have British and American accents diverged over time, according to the authors in Chapter 7, Pioneers! O Pioneers!?
9. What effect did World War II have on the Cockney language? What other world events affected it?
10. What impact did Black English have on whites in the American South?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Discuss and describe the different regions in America and the accents, history, people, and culture of each.
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 and discuss the influences of Germanic, French, and Romance languages on the development of English. What words today are rooted in these cultures and their interactions with the English?
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