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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. When did Queen Elizabeth die?
(a) 1600.
(b) 1595.
(c) 1650.
(d) 1603.

2. What style of music was the invention of the Scots-Irish?
(a) Jazz.
(b) Country.
(c) Blues.
(d) Hip-hop.

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

4. When did Jamaica regain complete independence?
(a) 1853.
(b) 1962.
(c) 1948.
(d) 1889.

5. The Anglo-Saxon language received a major boost when Christianity brought an enormous Latin vocabulary starting in what year?
(a) 597 A.D.
(b) 238 A.D.
(c) 359 A.D.
(d) 283 B.C.

Short Answer Questions

1. When did the Louisiana Purchase take place?

2. Who were among the first English-speaking migrants to the west and their descendants live in Cornwall, Scotland, Ireland, Wales, and Brittany?

3. When was Webster's Dictionary first published?

4. What is an English-based creole of Sierra Leone, a first language of the residents of Freetown and its environs, and a lingua franca elsewhere in the country?

5. Initially what percentage of Australians were English convicts?

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