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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. Who wrote The American Language?
(a) Dr. Samuel Johnson.
(b) Daniel Webster.
(c) H.L. Mencken.
(d) William Cran.

2. What term is also known as Irish English and is the dialect of English spoken in Ireland?
(a) Irish-English.
(b) Hiberno-English.
(c) Anglo-English.
(d) Gaelic-English.

3. Which of the four ethnic groups that invaded Scotland during the Dark Ages united the kingdom?
(a) The Scotti.
(b) The Finni.
(c) The Asti.
(d) The Illiuni.

4. The authors assert in Chapter 6, Black on White, that the black pidgins clearly date back to which century?
(a) Mid-fourteenth.
(b) Mid-sixteenth.
(c) Mid-seventeenth.
(d) Mid-fifteenth.

5. How many Irish emigrated to the United States in the nineteenth century?
(a) 3.5 million.
(b) 4.7 million.
(c) 6.1 million.
(d) 2 million.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is Scotland's most celebrated poet?

2. What was a common form of passing language down from one generation to the next in Irish culture?

3. How many people spoke English in Shakespeare's time?

4. What term refers to African Americans who live in the Lowcountry region of South Carolina and Georgia, which includes both the coastal plain and the Sea Islands?

5. Whose followers are known as Lollards, a somewhat rebellious movement, which preached anticlerical and biblically-centered reforms?

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