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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. When did the Louisiana Purchase take place?
(a) 1901.
(b) 1865.
(c) 1803.
(d) 1775.

2. 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-fifteenth.
(d) Mid-seventeenth.

3. When was the assassination of Archduke Ferdinand?
(a) 1925.
(b) 1789.
(c) 1914.
(d) 1919.

4. The Act of Union in what year brought Ireland into the United Kingdom, and English administrators started to impose English on the people?
(a) 1900.
(b) 1775.
(c) 1803.
(d) 1658.

5. Who published the Dictionary of the English Language in 1755?
(a) James Joyce.
(b) Daniel Johnson.
(c) Daniel Webster.
(d) Samuel Johnson.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who was a central figure in the Uncle Remus stories of the Southern United States?

2. When was Webster's Dictionary first published?

3. What word carried over from Cockney to Australian English?

4. By the turn of which century had English all but died out in Ireland?

5. Julius Caesar and his armies conquered Britain when?

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