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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. The United States is how many times the size of the United Kingdom?
(a) 100.
(b) 60.
(c) 30.
(d) 10.

2. Thomas Macaulay was born in what year?
(a) 1795.
(b) 1600.
(c) 1800.
(d) 1901.

3. In what year did Jamaica become an English, and later a British, colony, known as "Jamaica"?
(a) 1802.
(b) 1655.
(c) 1752.
(d) 1492.

4. The culture of Ireland rose to a high point in what century?
(a) 12th.
(b) 10th.
(c) 14th.
(d) 6th.

5. In Cockney, the "w" is often exchanged for what sound?
(a) "Z."
(b) "F."
(c) "V."
(d) "S."

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

7. What is the British spelling of the word "color"?
(a) Corlor.
(b) Culor.
(c) Colour.
(d) Collor.

8. What author noted that Southern women often sounded like their black slaves?
(a) Samuel Clemens.
(b) Mark Twain.
(c) Andrew Johnson.
(d) Charles Dickens.

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

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

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

12. Who wrote Uncle Tom's Cabin?
(a) Samuel Johnson.
(b) Harriet Beecher Stowe.
(c) James McDougal.
(d) Mark Twain.

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

14. When did the First World War begin?
(a) 1909.
(b) 1922.
(c) 1914.
(d) 1919.

15. By the turn of which century had English all but died out in Ireland?
(a) 17th.
(b) 19th.
(c) 16th.
(d) 20th.

Short Answer Questions

1. When did Jamaica regain complete independence?

2. Adventures of Huckleberry Finn was first published in what year?

3. The English language in Ireland is still _____ and non-standardized, according to Robert McCrum.

4. How many Germans have emigrated to the United States since 1776?

5. What musical genre originated at the beginning of the 20th century in African American communities in the Southern United States from a confluence of African and European music traditions?

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