1. Midland

2. Southern

3. Northumbrian

4. Celtic

5. Kentish

337. Which dialects did the Southern group include?

1. The Yorkshire and the Lancashire

2. The Mercian dialects

3. The Kentish and the South-Western

4. The OE Saxon dialects

5. Southern and Kentish

338. How many morphological categories did the Old English nouns have?

1. Five

2. Three

3. Nine

4. Two

5. One

339. How many cases did the Old English nouns have?

1. Seven

2. Five

3. Four

4. Two

5. Six

340. From what language was the majority of innovations in Middle English spelling?

1. Italian

2. French

3. Greek

4. Spanish

5. Latin

341. In what century did English make their first attempts to conquer Ireland?

1. In 15^th

2. In 12^th

3. In 11^th

4. In 14^th

5. In 16^th

342. What vowel is often represented by the letter O?

1. U

2. Y

3. A

4. E

5. I

343. How many types of nouns does the OE have?

A) 2

B) 3

C) 4

D) 1

E) 5

344. What categories does the OE have?

A) Homonymous

B) Morphological

C) Grammatical

D) Prefixes

E) Semantic correlations

345. How many genders did the nouns distinguish?

A) 2

B) 4

C) 5

D) 6

E) 3

346. How many members did the category of number consist of?

A) 3

B) 2

C) 4

D) 5

E) 6

347. How many cases did the noun have in OE?

A) 5

B) 3

C) 2

D) 4

E) 6

348. Find the definition for the Nominatives case

A) The case could convey an instrumental meaning.

B) The case of nouns, pronouns serving as attributes to other nouns.

C) The case of the active agent, for it was the case of the subject mainly used with verbs denoting activity.

D) The case indicating the means or manner of an action.

E) The case could indicate the passive subject.

349. What meanings do the Genitives have?

A) The case of the active agent

B) The easy meanings

C) The double meanings

D) The complex meanings

E) The case could convey an instrumental meaning.

350. What impact did Christianity have on English?

A) It changed spelling

B) It introduced English vocabulary

C) It changed the grammar

D) It influenced on pronunciation

E) It introduced new words

351. Why are there so few Celtic words in English?

A) The Celts invasion took a short time

B) The Celts and Saxons did not mix

C) The two languages were too similar

D) The Saxon invasion took a long time

E) The Celts and Saxons were mix

352. What did change in 16^th and 17^th centuries?

A) English Grammar

B) English pronunciation

C) English vocabulary

D) English words

E) English words were changed on new

353.What did happen in the end of the 11^th century?

A) English disappeared for a long time

B) Danish grammar was different from Old English

C) New Danish endings appeared on some words

D) Old English referred to Anglo-Saxon

E) English was the language of culture

354. To what family of languages does English enter?

A) North Germanic

B) West Germanic

C) East Germanic

D) Celtic

E) Greek

355. Which dialect was spoken by Anglo-Saxons?

A) Dutch

B) Norman

C) Latin

D) Celtic

E) Old English

356. When did the Norman Conquest happen?

A) 1055

B) 1056

C) 1066

D) 1063

E) 1060

357. What language did give to English these words: camp, cheese, wall?

A) Norman

B) Latin

C) Germanic

D) Dutch

E) Danish

358. In what centuries did the Germanic tribes colonize England?

A) 16-17^th

B) 17-18^th

C) 18-19^th

D) 19-20^th

E) 15-16^th

359. In what century did the Old Norman language influence English?

A) 13^th

B) 10^th

C) 12^th

D) 11^th

E) 9^th

360. Find the period when endings of words were leveled…

A) Proto English

B) Middle English

C) New English

D) Old English

E) Modern English

361. Find the period of full endings… A) Modern English

B) New English

C) Early Middle English

D) Old English

E) Late Middle English

362. Find the period of lost endings… A) Proto English

B) Modern English

C) Middle English

D) Old English

E) Early Middle English

363. Which alphabets were used in writings in Old English?

A) The Celtic and the Italic

B) The Icelandic and the Frisian

C) The Dutch and the Swedish

D) The Runic and the Latin

E) The Albanian and the Gothic

364. Which dialect was spoken by Angels living north of the Humber?

A) Mercian

B) Norman

C) Northumbrian

D) French

E) West-Saxon

365. Which dialect was spoken by Angels between the Humber and the Themes?

A) Mercian

B) Norman

C) Northumbrian

D) French

E) West-Saxon

366. What dialect was spoken by Saxons south of Themes?

A) French

B) Norman

C) Mercian

D) West-Saxons

E) Northumbrian

367. From what language were the words: army, troop, mail borrowed in Middle English?

A) Celtic

B) Norman

C) Germanic

D) French

E) Albanian

368. In what period were three opposed phonemes [e/i], [a] and [o/u] used?

A) Late Middle English

B) Old English

C) Early Middle English

D) Proto English

E) Modern English

369. In what period were two vowels in unaccented syllables [ә] and [i] used?

A) Late Middle English

B) Old English

C) Early Middle English

D) Proto English

E) Modern English

370. From what dialect did Northern dialect develop? A) Northumbrian

B) Danish

C) Mercian

D) French

E) West-Saxon

371. To what group did the Kentish and the South-Western dialects refer?

A) The Southern

B) Danish

C) Mercian

D) French

E) Northumbrian

372. To what dialects did Midland (Central) dialect divide? A) West Midland and East Midland

B) South Midland and East Midland

C) West Midland and North Midland

D) North Midland and South Midland

E) West Midland and South Midland

373. By whom was the French language brought to England?

A) The Norman conquerors

B) The French conquerors

C) The Danish conquerors

D) The Celtic immigrants

E) The Germanic conquerors

374. In what work did the first French loanwords record in the 14^th century?

A) Chaucer’s vocabulary

B) Latin Writings

C) Runic subscript

D) Shakespeare’s poem

E) Johnson’s dictionary

375. What was the name of Mercian dialect in Middle English?