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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.
Multiple Choice Questions
1. Which variant was most likely the first pidgin English?
(a) West African.
(b) Cajun.
(c) Haitian.
(d) Jamaican.
2. 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) Ki-Swahili.
(b) Krio.
(c) Singlish.
(d) Afrikaans.
3. Newfoundland was founded in what year?
(a) 1588.
(b) 1714.
(c) 1612.
(d) 1595.
4. What term is also known as Irish English and is the dialect of English spoken in Ireland?
(a) Anglo-English.
(b) Gaelic-English.
(c) Hiberno-English.
(d) Irish-English.
5. In what decade did Australian English come to be of interest in other English speaking countries?
(a) 1960s.
(b) 1970s.
(c) 1980s.
(d) 1990s.
Short Answer Questions
1. How many blacks were in the United States when the Civil War began?
2. What term refers to a variety of English spoken in Singapore, incorporating elements of Chinese and Malay?
3. Irish culture is a mixture of Celtic and what?
4. What was Mark Twain's real name?
5. When did the American Revolutionary War begin?
Short Essay Questions
1. Following the domination of the Irish by England, what splits arose over religion?
2. How have British and American accents diverged over time, according to the authors in Chapter 7, Pioneers! O Pioneers!?
3. Where is the Irish language preserved in the New World? Where did the Irish immigrate to in America?
4. What has led to the further development of English in the Far East?
5. How was Cockney stereotypically viewed in London? What governmental changes standardized it?
6. When was Webster's Dictionary first published? How many copies were sold in his lifetime?
7. What effect did World War II have on the Cockney language? What other world events affected it?
8. When did black pidgin languages first originate and why?
9. What do the authors attribute to Ireland's unique inflections and word stresses in dialect?
10. What impact did the slave ships in the Caribbean have on the spread of the English language?
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