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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 8, The Echoes of an English Voice.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What ship did James Cook sail to Queensland?
(a) The Endeavor.
(b) The Queen Mary.
(c) The British General.
(d) The East India Company.

2. Who brought the English language to Britain, according to Chapter 2, The Mother Tongue?
(a) Asian tribes.
(b) Celts.
(c) Germanic tribes.
(d) Roman tribes.

3. What Latin-speaking philosopher and theologian was a major figure in the development of Western Christianity?
(a) St. Peter.
(b) St. Mark.
(c) St. Patrick.
(d) St. Augustine.

4. 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?
(a) Jamaica.
(b) Haiti.
(c) Puerto Rico.
(d) Barbados.

5. What word carried over from Cockney to Australian English?
(a) Ello.
(b) Howdy.
(c) Mate.
(d) Bro.

Short Answer Questions

1. In Cockney, the "w" is often exchanged for what sound?

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

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 Queen Victoria take the British crown?

5. When did the Angles, Saxons, and Jutes sail from Denmark and the German Coast into Britain?

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