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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When did the American Civil War begin?
(a) 1856.
(b) 1795.
(c) 1861.
(d) 1845.

2. The denial of Afrikaans in South Africa sparked an explosive riot in what year?
(a) 1982.
(b) 1990.
(c) 1965.
(d) 1976.

3. What British author of Gulliver's Travels is known for being a master of two styles of satire: the Horatian and Juvenalian styles?
(a) Daniel Webster.
(b) Jonathan Swift.
(c) Samuel Johnson.
(d) Mark Twain.

4. What term refers to a member of the dark-skinned people who were the earliest inhabitants of Australia?
(a) Acatuna.
(b) Nintoona.
(c) Aborigine.
(d) Indians.

5. What is the capital of New Zealand?
(a) Sydney.
(b) Oxford.
(c) Binghamshire.
(d) Wellington.

6. When did the American Revolutionary War begin?
(a) 1790.
(b) 1850.
(c) 1775.
(d) 1699.

7. Which variant was most likely the first pidgin English?
(a) Cajun.
(b) Haitian.
(c) Jamaican.
(d) West African.

8. Irish culture is a mixture of Celtic and what?
(a) East Indian.
(b) Germanic.
(c) Anglo-Saxon.
(d) New World.

9. Initially what percentage of Australians were English convicts?
(a) 99%.
(b) 87%.
(c) 10%.
(d) 40%.

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

11. What language is associated with the Irish people?
(a) Latin.
(b) Welsh.
(c) Norse.
(d) Gaelic.

12. Kenya, Uganda, and Tanzania speak what primary language?
(a) Afrikaans.
(b) Tulu.
(c) Ki-Swahili.
(d) Nigerian.

13. What popular singer brought recognition to Jamaica?
(a) Lou Reed.
(b) Desi Arnaz.
(c) Jimi Hendrix.
(d) Bob Marley.

14. What American-originated word means an extraordinary or unusual thing, person, or event; an exceptional example or instance?
(a) Lollapalooza.
(b) Pot-luck.
(c) Stampede.
(d) Bonanza.

15. In order to find early Black American English, one must travel to the American South, especially Charlestown and where?
(a) Mississippi.
(b) Georgia.
(c) South Carolina.
(d) Louisiana.

Short Answer Questions

1. The English conquered and warred with the Irish for over how many years?

2. Thomas Macaulay was born in what year?

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?

4. Who wrote Uncle Tom's Cabin?

5. The Act of Union in what year brought Ireland into the United Kingdom, and English administrators started to impose English on the people?

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