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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What ship did James Cook sail to Queensland?
(a) The British General.
(b) The Queen Mary.
(c) The Endeavor.
(d) The East India Company.

3. When was Webster's Dictionary first published?
(a) 1779.
(b) 1809.
(c) 1828.
(d) 1951.

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

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

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

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

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

9. Ulster is composed of how many counties?
(a) 15.
(b) 5.
(c) 9.
(d) 10.

10. 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) Anglicisation.
(c) Modernization.
(d) Literacy.

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

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

13. How many blacks were in the United States when the Civil War began?
(a) 2 million.
(b) 3 million.
(c) 6 million.
(d) 4 million.

14. What was Mark Twain's real name?
(a) Mark Stevenson.
(b) Alexander Clemens.
(c) Samuel Clemens.
(d) Johnathan Swift.

15. How many copies of Webster's Dictionary sold during the author's lifetime?
(a) 80,000,000.
(b) 90,000.
(c) 60,000,000.
(d) 100,000,000.

Short Answer Questions

1. In order to find early Black American English, one must travel to the American South, especially Charlestown and where?

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

3. How many blacks still speak the dialect of Gullah today?

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

5. When did the British and East India Company establish outposts in India?

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