ENG501 Grand Quiz Set 2

1. The inflection of the in the Germanic languages is much simpler than it was in Indo- European times. (Verb)
2. Two streams mingle in Old English literature: the pagan and the . (Christian)
3. ‘A History of the English Language’ was written by . (Albert C. Baugh)
4. Norsemen and Normans were in origin. (Scandinavian)
5. ‘Who’ and ‘Which’ existed in the Old English but were indefinite or interrogative not relatives. (Pronouns)
6. 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)

7. What is tone age? (stone used as weapons)
8. The most influential factor in the rise of English was the importance of London as the capital of England. (Standard)
9. Choose the correct option.

‘A History of the English Language’ was written by . (Albert C. Baugh)

10.

Mark the following statements as True or False:

There was a great transition in ‘spelling’ from Old English to Middle English. (True)

11.

Adoption of words into the English language took place in the 13th century.

(French)

12.

The French language spread through . (intermarriage)

13.

Choose the best option.

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

(Manuscripts)

14.

Nearly a of the strong verbs in Oxford English died out early in the Middle English period. (third)

15.

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

16.

Was the language of the court and the upper classes; English was the speech of the masses. (French)

17.

Because of its system, Old English had greater freedom of word-order than Modern English. (inflectional)

18.

French is the first language in England to challenge the monopoly of Latin in matters.

(Written)

19.

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

gunpowder)

20.

English is derived from . (Anglo)

21.

All the legal vocabulary of English language has its origin in . (French)

22.

Geoffrey Chaucer’s ‘Canterbury Tales’ were written in . (1387)

23.

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

24.

The year in which Geoffrey Chaucer’s ‘Canterbury Tales’ were written was .

(1387)

25.

In the 14th and 15th centuries, London was: o The political capital of England o Commercial center of England o Focus of the social and intellectual activities

o (All of the given)

26.

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

27.

Romances owned by Richard II in 1385 were in , but he spoke English fluently.

(French)

28.

An anti-foreign movement in England culminated in the year’s war. (hundred)

29.

Due to the use of , there was an indirect effect on inflections (loss) and simplification of grammar. (French)

30.

Latin was the language of . Choose the correct option. (Romans)

31.

One of the consequences of the decay of inflections in Old English was the elimination of grammatical in Middle English. (gender)

32.

The vowel sounds of Old English relate to early . (West Saxon)

33.

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)

34.

At the time of the Norman Conquest, the civilization of Normandy was . (French)

35.

The literature in English that came down to us from the period (1150-1250) is almost exclusively . (Religious)

36.

On several occasions, Henry I confiscated the estates of unruly Norman Barons.

(English)

37.

Write the name of the period from 450 to 1150. (Old English)

38.

Chaucer’s prioress spoke French, though she told her tale to the Canterbury pilgrims in .

(English)

39.

The literature of the is the richest and the most significant of any preserved literatures among the early Germanic people. (Anglo-Saxons)

40.

Hundred years’ War is probably to be reckoned as one of the causes contributing to the disuse of . (French)

41.

In early Middle English, only method/s of indicating the plural remained fairly distinctive. (Two)

42.

The inflection of the Old English indicates distinctions of numbers (singular and plural) and case.(noun)

43.

In private and semi-official correspondence, French was at its height in about . (1350)

44.

The Black Death spread rapidly in England, reaching its height in . (1349)

45.

The difference that one notice between Old and Modern English concern spelling and pronunciation, and . (Lexicon and grammar)