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MKP History of Language

Total questions: 25

Worksheet time: 13mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

Conventionally Middle English lasts from ...

a)

5-10c

b)

10-15c

c)

15-18c

2.

Synthetic English became analytic one during

a)

5-10c

b)

16-19c

c)

11-15c

3.

... engaged in conflict with King of England, over power and money.

a)

Thomas Becket

b)

Henry II

c)

Thomas Hardy

4.

The Linguistic Atlas of Late Mediaeval English records around ... different spellings for word 'through'.

a)

500

b)

300

c)

100

5.

... syntax is characterised by double negation.

a)

Modern English

b)

Middle English

c)

Old English

6.

in OE ... were usually formed by inverting subject and finite verb.

a)

interrogative sentences

b)

negative sentences

c)

affirmative sentences

7.

The first and foremost difference between OE and ModE syntax is ...

a)

strong and weak verbs

b)

free word order

c)

usage of kennings

8.

 

Extracts from ... were carved in runes on Ruthwell Cross.

a)

Seafarer

b)

Dream of the Rood

c)

Beowulf

9.

Kennings are heavily formulaic ... used in OE literature

a)

metaphors

b)

metonymys

c)

metathesis

10.

Alliterative verse is a form of verse that uses ... as the principal ornamental device to help indicate the underlying metrical structure

a)

metathesis

b)

assonance

c)

alliteration

11.

... is a translation and adaptation of Latin history known as Seven Books of History against Pagans, written by Spanish cleric Paulus Orosius at the prompting of Saint Augustine after the sack of Rome in 410.

a)

Dream of the Rood

b)

Anglo-Saxon Chronicle

c)

World History

12.

Urheimat

a)

cognates

b)

homeland

c)

Germany

13.

Australopithecus Lucy is

a)

more than 3 million years old

b)

less than 3 million years old

14.

... William Jones (1746 –1794) was the first who compared Sanskrit with other languages.

a)

Welsh philologist 

b)

Scottish philologist

c)

English philologist 

15.

speakers of PIE language

a)

were travellers

b)

were warriors

c)

were nomadic pastoralists

16.

umlaut

a)

vowel change in root of a word

b)

consonant change in root of a word

17.

Gothic, Vandalic, Burgundian languages are

a)

West Germanic

b)

East Germanic

c)

North Germanic

18.

Which verbs of Germanic languages changed root vowel

a)

weak

b)

strong

c)

neutral

19.

... classes of old English strong verbs come from PGLs and can be divided into classes according to vowels changes in the roots.

a)

5

b)

6

c)

7

20.

Definite article sē comes in ... different forms depending on case, gender, and number.

a)

7

b)

9

c)

11

21.

OE Verbs have to agree with ... in number and person.

a)

SUBJECT

b)

PREDICATE

c)

OBJECT

22.

Weak verbs of OE are divided into ... major classes.

a)

9

b)

3

c)

5

23.

 ... is a sound change that converts voiced consonant /z/, /d/, /l/, or /n/) to  /r/. 

a)

LOSS OF CONSONANTS

b)

RHOTACISM

c)

LOSS OF VOWELS

24.

Dominant OE dialect was ...

a)

East-Saxon

b)

West-Saxon

c)

Northumbrian

25.

Progressive forms of verb (I am going) and range of auxiliary verbs (I have seen, I didn’t go) came into use in ...

a)

Middle English

b)

Old English

c)

Modern English