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Why were the 2-3 centuries a turning point of the history of the Germanic tribes and their dialect?

• It was a period of earliest written records

• It was a period of “great migrations”

• It was a period of the consolidation of the dialects

• it was a period of Christianity

• it was a period of destruction

Which of the following tribes belongs to East Germanic subgroup?

• Goths

• Jutes

• Saxons

• Angles

• Teutons

How many OE vowels could be found in unstressed syllables?

• 1

• 4

• 3

• 5

• 6

Kentish, West Saxon, Mercian and Northumbrian are ...

• Old Scandinavian

• OE dialects

• Celtic dialects

• London dialect

• Oxford dialect

“Anglo-Saxon Charters” are …

• OE poems

• OE legal documents

• King Alfreds translations

• Celtic poems

• Epic poem

Beowulf is based on old legends about …

• Celts

• Pope Gregory the Great

• King Alfred

• Tribal life of the Teutons

• Saxons

A change in which one unit is replaced by two or more distinct units is …

• Split

• Uniting

• Breaking

• Departing

• Shift

Development of the National literary English language refers to …

• New English period

• Middle English period

• Late Middle English period

• Early English

• Early middle English

A way of word-building in which the word changes its paradigm without changing its initial form, a new word belongs to a different part of speech.

• diphthongization

• gradation

• conversion

• Shift

• Uniting

When did Middle English period begin?

• In 1616

• In 1066

• In 1475

• In 1088

• In 1920