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Total questions: 38
Worksheet time: 19mins
The Roman occupation of Britain lasted nearly … years
500
400
700
600
800
The first printer of English books was …
no right answer
Johann Gutenberg
William Tyndale
William Shakespeare
William Caxton
The Old Germanic languages had a … grammatical structure
stable
synthetic
common
strong
weak
Which language was brought to South Africa and grew into a separate language Afrikaans about three hundred years ago?
the English language
the Danish language
the Dutch language
the Gothic language
the Celtic language
Common Indo-European words included names of
all listed above
plants and animals, agricultural terms
personal and demonstrative pronouns and most numerals
names of parts of the human body
pronouns and nouns
According to their morphological structure OE words fell into 3 main types:
simple words, derived words and compound words
difficult words, derived words and compound words
simple words, combined words and compound words
simple words, derived words and integrated words
no right answer
In Indo-European languages were … ways of word-stress:
5
3
2
4
1
Four principal dialects were spoken in Anglo-Saxon England:
Kentish, West Saxon, Mercian and Northumbrian
Welsh, Kymric, Manx and Celtic
Kentish, West Saxon, Manx and Celtic
Mercian, Northumbrian, Gallo-Britonnic and Gaelic
Manx and Celtic, Welsh, West Saxon
Which word did originally mean "secret" or "mystery"?
Silence
Word
Language
manuscript
Rune
What happened to Gothic language as a result?
the language is becoming more popular nowadays
the language is 'still alive' and using by few people
the language is dead
the language is forbidden to use
the language is "alive" and used by tribes
The earliest extant written texts in English are dated in the … century
6th
8th
9th
7th
10th
There was no linguistic barrier between them as both OE and OScandinavian belonged to the … group
Celtic
Indo-European
Tupian
Australian
Germanic
The first English words to be written down with the help of Latin characters were…
Name of battles
names of actions
the name of natural phenomenon
Personal names and place names
name of plants
The history of the English language begins with the invasion of the British Isles by Germanic tribes in the…
9th
5th
8th
6th
7th
The History of the language can be subdivided into
historical phonetics, historical morphology, historical syntax and historical lexicology
historical phonetics, historical morphology and historical syntax
historical phonetics and historical morphology
historical morphology and historical syntax
historical morphology, historical lexicology
Old English begins with the Germanic settlement of Britain (5th century) or with the beginning of … (7th c.)
Speaking
Reading
Writing
listening
no right answer
The 1st mention of Germanic tribes was made by …
Caxton
Cornwell
Pitheas
Edward the Confessor
no right answer
The theoretical aim of the course is to supply the student with all necessary to consider such problems as…
all listed above
the relationship between statics and dynamics in language
the role of linguistic and extralinguistic factors
the interdependence of different processes in language history
the connection of language history with it's development
Assimilation of French words by the speakers of English was a more difficult process than that of Scandinavian words, because…
French belonged to a different linguistic group and had very little in common with English
people didn't like French words
French was a language of their enemies
French belonged to the same linguistic group
The first English book, printed in 1475, was Caxton's translation of the story of Troy …
Utopia
No right answer
Chronicle
Sir Gawaine and the Green Knight
Recuyell of the Historyes of Troye
By the end of the …the domination of the French language in England came to an end, and English was reestablished as the language of literature and administration.
15th
18th
19th
14th
16th
The Germanic tribes, conquered Britain, formed … independent kingdoms
5
6
7
4
8
English belongs to the … group of languages
Germanic
European
Celtic
Australian
Austronesian
The 16th century is known as the age of literary Renaissance or the …
"age of Chaucer”
"age of Gower”
"age of English literature"
"age of Shakespeare”
" William Tyndale"
The end of the Old English period and the beginning of Middle English is marked by:
two outstanding political events (the Scandinavian invasion and the Norman conquest)
one outstanding political event (the Scandinavian invasion)
one outstanding political event (the Norman conquest)
three outstanding political events (the Scandinavian invasion and the Norman conquest and the German invasion)
no right answer
The Middle English period (Middle English) is:
1400-1700
110-450
450-1100
1100-1500
1900-2100
Put in chronological order three alphabets, which the Germans used:
the runes, Ulfila's gothic alphabet, Latin alphabet
the runes, Latin alphabet, Ulfila's gothic alphabet
Latin alphabet, Ulfila's gothic alphabet, the runes
Ulfila's gothic alphabet, Latin alphabet, the runes
Latin alphabet, the runes, Ulfila's gothic alphabet
According to Henry Sweet Middle English is:
the period of lost endings
the period of leveled endings
the period of full endings
The period of altered endings
no right answer
The second half of the 14th c. was marked by the flourishing of literature. This period of literary florescence is known as the …
"age of Shakespeare”
"age of literature"
"age of Langland"
"age of Gower"
"age of Chaucer”
The English king who came to the throne was to be the last English king for more than three centuries:
Edward the Confessor
Henry II
Henry IV
Alfred
King Arthur
The beginning of the Modern or New English period which lasts to the …
2th century
present day
19th century
18th century
17th century
The commonly accepted periodisation divides English history into 3 periods: Old English, Middle English and…
Modern English
Present English
Real English
English
no right answer
When did the Great Vowel Shift take place?
1100-1500
1000-1400
1700-1900
1400-1700
Beowulf is
OE chronicler
the main character of the epic
the leader of the Anglo-Saxon Invasion
Norman conqueror
What is called the pre-written period of Old English?
1st-5th
6th-8th
beginning of the 8th
5th-7th
The origin of the Germanic alphabets
The runes were invented by the Romans in the 8th century
We don’t know exactly…
The runes were invented by the Romans in the 4th century
The runes were invented by the French in the 2nd century
The earliest known runic alphabet had
25 letters
26 letters
20 letters
24 letters
On archaeological grounds the earliest extant runes are dated to
The 2nd century AD
The 6th century AD
The 8th century AD
The 4th century AD
