ENG501 Midterm Quiz

ENG501

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Maha Malik History of English Language

1. About which language, Sir William Jones, a British government official in India, does observe that it perfect, copious and exquisitely refined? (Sanskrit)
2. Which of the flowing is not true about language? (a language does exist s an abstract entity)
3. Which speech is not the part of human language? (ko ko sound)
4. “it is to speak infinite utterances with new expressions and novel utterances.” Which feature of language has been discussed in the given statement? (productivity)
5. Who is the author of ‘General Prologue to Canterbury Tales’? (Geoffrey Chaucer)
6. ‘Thy’ is the equivalent form of in modern English. (your)
7. How many different languages are there in the world currently? (six thousand)
8. The study of a language at a given point in time is called linguistics. (synchronic)
9. There are approximately speech sounds in English. (44)
10. The puritan revolution overthrew the monarchy and established a military dictatorship. Which period does come into your mind? (the Early Modern English period)
11. Denotation is the part of . choose one option. (semantics)
12. Over million people speak English as a foreign language. (700)
13. Diachronic linguistics is one of the two main temporal dimensions of language study identified by Swiss linguist . (Ferdinand de Saussure)
14. In intonation, the pauses or connections between words, phases and sentences are called . choose one option. (juncture)
15. The ability to continually create new expressions and novel utterances is called .
16. What is the strength of people who speak English as a foreign language in the world? (over

700 million)

17. Select the middle English period from the following options? (1100-1500)
18. In intonation how low or soft a word is spoken is called . (Stress)
19. How many different languages are there in the world currently? (over six thousand)
20. In intonation how or low a voice is when producing a sound is called . (pitch)
21. Which of the languages survived currently in the language families? (Arabic)
22. Which of the following option is NOT correct about English? (it is a common mother tongue)
23. The word “Kinda” is a non-standard form of . (Kind of)
24. Which feature of language has been discussed in the following statement? Bees can pass on information about food sources but cannot tell about a food source they saw last week.

(Displacement)

25. Which of the following statement is NOT true? (Audible and meaningful sounds are

produced the vocal organs)

26. Which option is correct about “unhappy”? (Two morphemes)
27. Which of the following words is similar to The Italian word “uomo”? (The Latin homo)
28. In linguistics, relationship between linguistic signs and objects in the world is described as the principle of . (arbitrariness)
29. The vocal sounds of Old English relate to early
30. Two streams mingle in Old English literature the pagan and the

. (Christian)

31. The Wales belongs to

. (Briton)

32. The inflection of the Old English
33. In Old English, thou and thee were pronouns. (singular)
34. In Old English, the vowel of the tense often differs in the singular and plural. (past)
35. Latin was the language of
36. Write the name of the period from 450 to 1150. (Old English)
37. Choose the best option.

in this region.

38. Choose the best option.
39. Select the correct order of the material according to the age: (Stone, bronze, iron,

gunpowder)

40. The heathon god “Tiw” is named after

. (Tuesday)

41. Which one is not the meaning of English word “wealh”? (Native)
42. Because of its
43. ‘Who’ and ‘Which’ existed in the Old English but were indefinite or interrogative . Not
44. Bede in his Ecclesiastical History of the English People, completed in 731, tells us that the