ENG501 Midterm Quiz 2 Before Midterm by Maha Malik

1. The vocal sounds of Old English relate to early . (West Saxon)
2. Two streams mingle in Old English literature the pagan and the . (Christian)
3. The Wales belongs to . (Briton)
4. The inflection of the Old English indicates distinctions of numbers (singular and

plural) and case.(noun)

5. In Old English, thou and thee were pronouns. (singular)
6. In Old English, the vowel of the tense often differs in the singular and plural. (past)
7. Latin was the language of . choose the correct option (Romans)
8. Write the name of the period from 450 to 1150. (Old English)
9. Choose the best option.

Nearly all of Old English literature is preserved in transcribed in this region.

(Manuscripts)

10.

Choose the best option.

The difference that one notice between Old and Modern English concern spelling and

pronunciation, and . (Lexicon and grammar)

11.

Select the correct order of the material according to the age: (Stone, bronze, iron,

gunpowder)

12.

The heathon god “Tiw” is named after . (Tuesday)

13.

Which one is not the meaning of English word “wealh”? (Native)

14.

Because of its system, Old English had greater freedom of word-order than

Modern English. (inflectional)

15.

‘Who’ and ‘Which’ existed in the Old English but were indefinite or interrogative .

not relatives. (Pronouns)

16.

Bede in his Ecclesiastical History of the English People, completed in 731, tells us that

the Germanic tribes that conquered England were . Choose the correct option.

Jutes · Saxons · Angles · All the other · 17.

The literature of the is the richest and the most significant of any preserved

literature among the early Germanic people. (Anglo-Saxons)

18.

In old English were a fertile resource in the word building and particularly a

feature in the formation of verbs. (Prefixes)

19.

Chose the best option.

Old English vocabulary appropriate to literature and learning dies out and was replaced later by

words borrowed from . (French and Latin)

20.

What is tone age? (stone used as weapons)

21.

English is derived from . (Anglo)

22.

The inflection of the in the Germanic languages is much simpler than it was in

Indo-European times. (Verb)

23.

Which of the following is NOT the part of Roman conquest? (King James)

24.

An important feature of the Germanic languages is declension. The weak declension is

used when the is preceded by article, demonstrative, or possessive pronoun.

(noun)

25.

The old English script normally uses consonant symbols.(sixteen)