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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Who was a central figure in the Uncle Remus stories of the Southern United States?
(a) Johnny Appleseed.
(b) Pecan Pete.
(c) Butler Johnson.
(d) Brer Rabbit.

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

4. Newfoundland was founded in what year?
(a) 1612.
(b) 1595.
(c) 1714.
(d) 1588.

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

6. In what decade did Australian English come to be of interest in other English speaking countries?
(a) 1990s.
(b) 1980s.
(c) 1960s.
(d) 1970s.

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

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

9. 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?
(a) Zulu.
(b) Haitian.
(c) Gullah.
(d) Indican.

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

11. What word refers to a process of conversion of verbal or written elements of any other language into a more comprehensible English form for an English speaker or to become English in form or character?
(a) Englishation.
(b) Literacy.
(c) Modernization.
(d) Anglicisation.

12. What is a term used for both dialects of English and English-based pidgins and creoles, and whose meaning depends considerably upon the context, and particularly the part of the world?
(a) Nonstandard English.
(b) Native English.
(c) Black English.
(d) Pidgin English.

13. 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?
(a) Afrikaans.
(b) Krio.
(c) Ki-Swahili.
(d) Singlish.

14. The English conquered and warred with the Irish for over how many years?
(a) 800.
(b) 500.
(c) 200.
(d) 600.

15. What word that originated in the American West means a source of great and sudden wealth or luck; a spectacular windfall?
(a) Stampede.
(b) Lollapalooza.
(c) Discombobulate.
(d) Bonanza.

Short Answer Questions

1. What language is associated with the Irish people?

2. When was Webster's Dictionary first published?

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

4. Who wrote Uncle Tom's Cabin?

5. What is the capital of Jamaica?

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