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Jamaican Creole (JC) or Jamaican Standard English (JSE)?

Total questions: 25

Worksheet time: 13mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

Weh yuh ah seh?

a)

What are you saying?

b)

Weh yuh ah seh?

c)

What are you going?

d)

What is your name?

2.

Wah uh name?

a)

Where is your name?

b)

What is your name?

c)

Where are you?

d)

What name is given to you?

3.

Mi soon come

a)

I am going

b)

I am on my way

c)

I am coming

d)

I'll be there soon

4.

Inna de morrows

a)

See you tomorrow

b)

See you later

c)

See you next week

d)

See you in the next day

5.

De party tun up

a)

The party was bad

b)

The party is good

c)

The party was boring

d)

The party turn up

6.

Mi nuh biznizz.

a)

It matters to me

b)

I don't business

c)

I don't care

d)

I care zero

7.

Weh uh come from?

a)

Which country are you from?

b)

Where are you from?

c)

Where do you live?

d)

Who lives next to you?

8.

Wah uh mada name?

a)

Who is your mother?

b)

Where is your mother?

c)

What is your mother's name?

d)

When can I learn your mother's name?

9.

The official language of Jamaica is:

a)

Jamaican creole

b)

Jamaican Patois

c)

English

d)

French

10.

Which does NOT represent Jamaican culture?

a)

Dancehall music

b)

Reggae

c)

Dub poetry

d)

Hip hop music

11.

Jamaica was first colonized by the ...

a)

British

b)

Spanish

c)

French

12.

Jamaican Patois has no ...

a)

Grammar

b)

Vocabulary

c)

Standard way to write

d)

Phonology

13.

The word duppy means ...

a)

Spider

b)

Ghost

c)

Child

d)

Eat

14.

What are Jamaica's languages?

a)

Jamaican English and Spanish

b)

Jamaican English and Jamaican Creole

c)

Jamaican Creole and Spanish

d)

Jamaican Creole, Jamaican English and Spanish

15.

The three terms in the speech continuum are

a)

acrolect, basilect and mesolect

b)

acrolect, idiolect and mesolect

c)

sociolect, basilect and acrolect

d)

acrolect, dialect and basilect

16.

What style of music is popular in Jamaica?

a)

Reggae

b)

Blues

c)

Jazz

d)

Classical

17.

Those indigenous people who settled in Jamaica were called...

a)

Africans

b)

Arawaks

c)

Asiatic People

d)

Europeans

18.

In English, the Jamaican creole word "Pickney" means child. True or False?

a)

True

b)

False

19.

What is Jamaica's National Motto?

a)

Out of many too many people

b)

Out of One, many people

c)

Out of Many, One people

d)

Outtameni

20.

Jamaican Standard English (JSE) is influenced mainly by:

a)

American and Austrailian English

b)

British English and West African languages

c)

British English and French

d)

British English and American English

21.

When the Africans were separated on arriving in Jamaica during the British colonial period, they used this language to communicate.

a)

Pidgin

b)

Patois

c)

French Creole

d)

English

22.

Jamaican Creole (Patois) is formed mainly from...

a)

Africaan and French

b)

Spanish and English

c)

British English and West African languages

d)

Patwah

23.

The word "Patois" is of what origin?

a)

Spanish

b)

French

c)

British

d)

American

24.

Jamaica's "national language" is...

a)

Jamaican Standard English

b)

British English

c)

American English

d)

Jamaican Creole (Jamaican Patois)

25.

Society views Jamaican Creole as...

a)

popular and negative

b)

popular and positive

c)

unpopular and prestigious

d)

the language of the minority