Me period and formation of the national literary English

193. How long did ME period last? Answer the question and choose the correct letter.

a) It lasted from about 1066 to about 1500.

b) It lasted from about 1166 to about 1400.

c) It lasted from about 1166 to about 1450.

d) It lasted from about 1160 to about 1550.

194. What period in the history of English should be seen as a transition point? Answer the question and choose the correct letter.

1. EModE;

2. ME;

3. OE;

4. Present-day English.

195. What dialect was the most important in OE? Answer the question and choose the correct letter.

a) Northumbrian;

b) Mercian;

c) Kentish;

d) West Saxon.

196. What dialect in OE was a dialect of King Alfred? Answer the question and choose the correct letter.

a) Northumbrian;

b) Mercian;

c) Kentish;

d) West Saxon.

197. What language co-existed with Old English dialects? Answer the question and choose the correct letter.

a) Greek;

b) Latin;

c) German;

d) French.

198. When did the Norman Conquest of England happen? Answer the question and choose the correct letter.

a) in 1066;

b) in 1166;

c) in 1266;

d) in 1216.

199. What consequences did the Norman invasion have for the English population?

Answer the question and choose the incorrect letter.

1. The Normans built around 1000 castles, among them the White Tower of London.

2. The Normans also didn’t control education.

3. The Normans also imported their national symbols.

4. Normans brought their language, Norman French.

200. What did Britain begin to export in Middle Ages? Answer the question and choose the correct letter.

a) woolen cloth;

b) fur;

c) honey;

d) silk.

201. What Battle did William the Conqueror kill king Harold? Answer the question and choose the correct letter.

a) in the Battle of Oxford;

b) in the Battle of London;

c) in the Battle of Hastings;

d) in the Battle of Cambridge.

202. What tapestry were the events at Hastings woven into? Answer the question and choose the correct letter.

a) Bayeux tapestry;

b) Peterborough tapestry;

c) Northumbrian tapestry;

d) ) Mercian tapestry;

203. What can you see in the picture? Answer the question and choose the correct letter.

a) the Bayeux tapestry;

b) the Peterborough tapestry;

c) the Northumbrian tapestry;

d) the Mercian tapestry.

204. What is the Bayeux tapestry? Answer the question and choose the incorrect letter.

a) It is a unique and extraordinary document to reflect this episode of French history.

b) It is an embroidered cloth—not an actual tapestry—nearly 70 metres (230 ft) long, which depicts the events leading up to the Norman conquest of England.

c) The tapestry is regarded as one of the greatest examples of Anglo-Saxon art.

d) The tapestry was ordered by a Norman, but it was made by English (Anglo-Saxon) artisans.

205. Analyse the sentences and choose the wrong one.

a) Norman = North-man, descendants of Danes, spoke French influenced by Germanic dialect.

b) The Normans were Norwegian Vikings.

c) In 911 they forced the French king, Rollo, to cede French territory.

d) By 1000 Normandy didn’t become one of the most powerful and successful regions in Western Europe.

206. Analyse the statement and fill in the gap, choose the correct letter.

There is a recognizable gap in the transition from the Old English to the Middle English text corpus, because the Written English didn’t exist for about … years as the consequence of the political changes after the Norman Conquest.

a) 150-170;

b) 100-150;

c) 50-100;

d) 120-150.

207. Who is considered to be a “father of English Poetry”? Answer the question and choose the correct letter.

a) Geoffrey Chaucer;

b) W.Shakespeare;

c) the king James;

d) the king Alfred.

208. What is Chaucer's best-known work? Answer the question and choose the correct letter.

a) “The Canterbury Tales”;

b) “Ecclesiastical History of the English People”;

c) “Beowulf”;

d) “Much ado about nothing”.

209. Fill in the gaps and choose the correct letter.

“The Canterbury Tales” is a collection of stories written in (1)… by Geoffrey Chaucer at the end of the 14th century. The tales (mostly written in verse although some are in prose) are presented as part of a story-telling contest by a group of (2)… as they travel together on a journey from Southwark to the shrine of Saint Thomas Becket at (3)….