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

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. What term means a people or person who use many languages?
(a) Industrius.
(b) Babylonian.
(c) Polyglot.
(d) Bilingual.

4. Where was the slave trade centered in Great Britain?
(a) Essex.
(b) London.
(c) Ireland.
(d) Bristol.

5. 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) Indican.
(b) Gullah.
(c) Haitian.
(d) Zulu.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who wrote Uncle Tom's Cabin?

2. How many people in America claim to be of Irish descent today?

3. What language is associated with the Irish people?

4. What American-originated word means an extraordinary or unusual thing, person, or event; an exceptional example or instance?

5. The denial of Afrikaans in South Africa sparked an explosive riot in what year?

Short Essay Questions

1. What international influences came to the English language from New York?

2. What do the authors write of the Jamaican dialect in Chapter 9, The New Englishes?

3. When was Webster's Dictionary first published? How many copies were sold in his lifetime?

4. How many Americans are of Irish descent? What association do Westerners have with Ireland's history?

5. What impact did Black English have on whites in the American South?

6. When was English first introduced to India? What led to its development there?

7. How has English developed among African nations?

8. What is the source of inspiration for Irish literature? When did Irish culture rise to its high point?

9. How was Cockney stereotypically viewed in London? What governmental changes standardized it?

10. What effect did World War II have on the Cockney language? What other world events affected it?

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