The Story of English
10 questions on chapter 6
1. The words voodoo, tote, banjo, juke and banana are of African origin.
2. The Middle Passage was the journey from America to Bristol.
3. The creoles of Barbados and Jamaica are pidgins.
4. Charleston, South Carolina, used to be the slave capital of the US.
5. To sell someone down the river means to do that person a favour.
6. Joe Chandler Harris, the author of the Uncle Remus stories, was of African origin.
7. George Gershwin ’s opera Porgy and Bess contains many Black English words.
8. The original meaning of jazz was to speed up.
9. The word rap as in take the rap meant talk.
10. The influence of Black English on American English has been substantial.
