9L Old English Literature [Interactive Wayground Task]

9L Old English Literature [Interactive Wayground Task]

Assessment

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English

9th Grade

Easy

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Jerico Espinosa

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8 questions

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1.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

Which group brought Old English to Britain?

Vikings

Germanic

Normans

Romans

2.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

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

30 sec • 1 pt

The Germanic dialects they spoke would become known as:

Frisian

Gothic

Anglo-Saxon

Old Norse

4.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

To which language family does Old English belong?

Romance language family

Celtic language family

Germanic language family

Latin language family

5.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

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

30 sec • 1 pt

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.