Which group brought Old English to Britain?
9L Old English Literature [Interactive Wayground Task]

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Jerico Espinosa
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1.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
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Vikings
Germanic
Normans
Romans
2.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
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What significant linguistic change occurred in English after the Norman Invasion of 1066?
English adopted a massive amount of French and Latin vocabulary.
English became a Romance language.
Old English was completely replaced by French.
English grammar became identical to Latin grammar.
3.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
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The Germanic dialects they spoke would become known as:
Frisian
Gothic
Anglo-Saxon
Old Norse
4.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
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To which language family does Old English belong?
Romance language family
Celtic language family
Germanic language family
Latin language family
5.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
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In the Germanic language family, how did words starting with 'P' in Old English typically behave compared to German?
They systematically shifted to an 'F' sound.
They systematically shifted to a 'PF' sound.
They remained unchanged as 'P'.
They systematically shifted to a 'B' sound.
6.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
30 sec • 1 pt
Which language group contributed words like "skirt" and "skull" to English?
French
Celtic
Latin
Old Norse (Vikings)
7.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
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What is known about Proto-Germanic?
It was a written language spoken around 500 CE.
It is a reconstructed common ancestor of English, Swedish, and German, spoken around 500 BCE.
It was the language of Beowulf.
It is a modern dialect of German.
8.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
30 sec • 1 pt
Where was Proto-Indo-European spoken approximately 6,000 years ago?
In ancient Rome.
On the Pontic Steppe in modern-day Ukraine and Russia.
In the British Isles.
In ancient Greece.
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