EDU 201Chapter 5 Test

The recorded history of the English language begins, not on the Continent, where we know its speakers once lived, but in the ____ Isles, where they eventually settled.

• Virgin

• British

During the period when the language was spoken in Europe, it is known as pre–Old English, for it was only after the _____ separated themselves from their Germanic cousins that we recognize their speech as a distinct language and begin to have records of it.

• English

• British

In _____ Angles, Saxons, Jutes, and Frisians began to occupy Great Britain, thus changing its major population to English speakers and separating the early English language from its Continental relatives. This is a traditional date; the actual migrations doubtless began earlier.

• 597

• 449

• 664

______ of Canterbury arrived in England to begin the conversion of the English by baptizing King Ethelbert of Kent, thus introducing the influence of the Latin language.

• Saint Augustine

• Saint Peter

In ____ the Synod of Whitby aligned the English with Roman rather thanCeltic Christianity, thus linking English culture with mainstream Europe.

• 730

• 664

The Venerable Bede produced his ecclesiastical History of the English People, recording the early history of the English people in 730.

• True

• False

The Scandinavian invasion began with raids along the northeast seacoast in 787.

• True

• False

In ____ the Scandinavians occupied northeastern Britain and began a campaign to conquer all of England.

• 865

• 787

• 664

Alfred became king of Wessex and reigned until his death in ____, rallying the English against the Scandinavians, retaking the city of London, establishing the Danelaw, securing the kingship of all England for himself and his successors, and producing or sponsoring the translation of Latin works into English.

• 871

• 899

• 865

Aelfric, the homilist and grammarian, went to the abbey of Cerne, where he became the major prose writer of the Old English period and of its Benedictine Revival, producing a model of prose style that influenced following centuries.

• 987

• 991

• 1016