Quiz 1 (B.A 2023-2027)

After the Norman Conquest, which language became the language of courts and government?

• Latin

• Old English

• Norse

• French

Anglo-Saxon is otherwise called as ___________

• New English

• British English

• Old English

• Middle English

Which tribe did not come to England during the 5th Century?

• Angles

• Hungrian

• Jutes

• Saxons

Who is the writer of Beowulf?

• Hrothgar

• Grendel

• Unknown

• Hudson

Widsith is the name of?

• poem

• prose

• drama

• writer

Which among the following is not a dialect of Old English?

• North Umbrian

• Mercian

• Meridian

• Kentish

English belongs to which language family?

• Germanic

• Roman

• Greek

• Baltic

Normans invaded England in?

• 1066

• 1055

• 1056

• 1065

Chaucer lived during the reign of __________

• Edward III and Henry IV

• Edward III and Richard II

• Richard II and Henry IV

• Edward III, Richard II, and Henry IV

What is Chaucer's most famous work?

• Beowulf

• Bible

• The Canterbury Tales

• The Summers Tale