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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 6, Black on White.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When was William Shakespeare born?
(a) 1555.
(b) 1603.
(c) 1564.
(d) 1572.

2. When did the Angles, Saxons, and Jutes sail from Denmark and the German Coast into Britain?
(a) 340 B.C.
(b) 100 B.C.
(c) 449 A.D.
(d) 300 A.D.

3. Johnson traveled through where at the dawn of the Enlightenment of Hume, Smith, Burns, and Telford?
(a) Wales.
(b) New York.
(c) Ireland.
(d) Scotland.

4. Whose followers are known as Lollards, a somewhat rebellious movement, which preached anticlerical and biblically-centered reforms?
(a) Samuel Johnson's.
(b) James Calvin's.
(c) Daniel Webster's.
(d) John Wycliffe's.

5. In what decade did a rebellious side of black liberation come together in New Orleans?
(a) 1780s.
(b) 1850s.
(c) 1950s.
(d) 1870s.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who was the leader of translation in the King James Bible?

2. Who welcomed St. Augustine in England?

3. Who published the Dictionary of the English Language in 1755?

4. Who is Scotland's most celebrated poet?

5. Who wrote Uncle Tom's Cabin?

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