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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 9, The New Englishes.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How many blacks still speak the dialect of Gullah today?
(a) 100,000.
(b) 250,000.
(c) 200,000.
(d) 300,000.

2. How many people in America claim to be of Irish descent today?
(a) 40,000,000.
(b) 20,000,000.
(c) 2,000,000.
(d) 5,000,000.

3. 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) United Empire Loyalist.
(b) British Loyalist.
(c) Montreal Loyalist.
(d) Canadian Loyalist.

4. What term refers to a variety of English spoken in Singapore, incorporating elements of Chinese and Malay?
(a) Afrikaans.
(b) Singlish.
(c) East English.
(d) Ki-Swahili.

5. Who is the author of Ivanhoe?
(a) Samuel Johnson.
(b) Robert Burns.
(c) Andrew Webster.
(d) Sir Walter Scott.

Short Answer Questions

1. In what decade did a rebellious side of black liberation come together in New Orleans?

2. RP was spoken by how much of the British population at the origination of BBC?

3. Johnson traveled through where at the dawn of the Enlightenment of Hume, Smith, Burns, and Telford?

4. The establishment of what was an important moment for English as word choices had to be made for standard broadcasting?

5. Robert McCrum describes the modulation of British RP to what in the Introduction?

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