46. To which language family does the Germanic language belong?

A) Romanic

B) Turkic

C) Indo-European

D) Arabian

E) Eastern

47. Where exactly was the Germanic language spoken in the 1^st century?

A) England

B) Germany

C) America

D) Italy

E) Spain

48. How many groups do enter to the Germanic language?

A) 4

B) 5

C) 2

D) 3

E) 6

49. Which two alphabets were used in Old English?

A) The Anglo-French and English

B) The Latin and English

C) The Runic and Anglo-French

D) The Runic and Latin

E) The English and Runic

50. By what year had the Old English been spoken?

A) 9^th century

B) Around 1500 AD

C) Until around 1100 AD

D) 11^th century

E) 8^th century

51. What are the years of Middle English?

A) 300-200 BC

B) 1066-1500 AD

C) 1400-1500 AD

D) 500-100 BC

E) 1342-1650 AD

52. Who was the most famous writer of Middle English?

1. Christopher Marlo

2. Geoffrey Chaucer

3. Ernest Hemingway.

4. John Milton

5. Philip Durkin

53. By whom was Middle English spelling influenced?

1. By Anglo-Saxons

2. By Geoffrey Chaucer

3. By speakers of the Scandinavian branch

4. By Germanic tribes

5. By Norman

54. When did Geoffrey Chaucer write “The Canterbury tales”

1. In the early 1380s

2. In the 1600

3. In the VIII century

4. In 1100

5. in the early 1490

55. By whom the Anglo-Frisian dialects were brought to Britain?

1. By Anglo-Saxon kings

2. By Greek tribes

3. By fictional pilgrims

4. By Germanic invaders

5. By Anglo-Saxon authors

56. Which words from Old English are used in Modern English.

1. Kitchen, fork and cook.

2. Be, strong and water

3. Butler, chess and dish.

4. Fork, cattle and pounds.

5. Wine and mile.

57. When did Old English period formally end?

1. With introduction of Christianity

2. With addition of Latin words

3. With Germanic invasion

4. With the Norman conquest

5. After arriving of Jutes

58. To what literary genre does “Beowulf” belong.

1. Novel

2. Tale

3. Lyric poetry

4. Epic poem

5. Love story

59. Who was an author of the epic poem “Beowulf”?

1. Unknown author

2. Gilbert Chesterton

3. Christian Clerics

4. Geoffrey Chaucer

5. Ernest Hemingway

60. To what group of languages does English belong?

1. Baltic

2. Armenian

3. Greek

4. Germanic

5. Venetian

61. What language was mostly used for written language, especially that of the Church?

A) Celtic

B) English

C) Germanic

D) Greek

E) Latin

62. To what group does English belong?

A) Norman languages

B) Romance languages

C) Germanic languages

D) Latin languages

E) Arabian languages

63. Which three Germanic tribes did come to the British Isles from various parts of northwest Germany?

A) Briton, Romans, Celts

B) Incas, Maya, Vikings

C) Aztecs, Celts, Anglo-Saxons

D) Saxons, Angles, Jutes

E) Danes, Vikings, Jutes

64. What is the most famous example of Middle English?

A) Martian Chronicles

B) Beowulf

C) Romeo and Juliet

D) Hamlet

E) The Canterbury Tales

65. When did Old English exist?

A) 450-1100

B) 1100-1500

C) 1200-1600

D) 500-1200 E) 450-1200

66. Which languages do constitute a branch of the Indo-European language family?

A) Latin B) English C) Germanic

D) Arabian E) Greek

67. When and where was the Proto-Germanic language spoken?

A) mid-1^st millennium BC in Iron Age northern Europe B) mid-2^nd millennium BC in Bronze Age C) 5 century BC D) 11 century BC E) 7 century BC

68. What event did bring more Latin words into the English language in 597?

A) the invasion of Normans B) the introduction of Christianity

C) Williams invasion D) Conqueror of Arthur king E) Invasion of Vikings

69. Which alphabet was used by Old Germanic in 3 century?

A) Runic B) Arabian C) Latin D) Greek E) Turkic

70. Who first did introduce the concept of a synchronic linguistics as opposed to diachronic?

A) Julius Caesar B) Kermann Paul C) Kare Brugmann D) Berthold Delburk E) Swiss scholar Ferdinand de Saussure

71. When William the conqueror did invade and conquer England?

A) 1066

B) 1056

C) 1076

D) 1046

E) 1060

72. How the English language was considered in the Middle period of its developing?

A) unknown language

B) popular language

C) lingua franca

D) widespread tonque

E) vulgar tonque

73. What are the centuries of the Great Vowel Shift?

A) 15-20^th centuries

B) 14-16^th centuries

C) 13-17^th centuries

D) 15-18^th centuries

E) 16-17^th centuries

74. The closest undoubted living relatives of English are?

A) Scots and Frisian

B) Anglo - Saxons

C) Norsemen

D) Jutes

E) Normans

75. By what time England and France had split?

A) by about 1100

B) by about 1190

C) by about 1700

D) by about 1200

E) by about 1500

76. What famous event did bring more Latin words into the Old period of its developing?

A) Celtic influence

B) Vikings invasion

C) William the Conqueror’s invasion

D) Great Vowel Shift

E) The introduction of Christianity

77. When did St. Augustine arrive at Saxon England?

A) in 597

B) in 878

C) in 565

D) in 412

E) in 720

78. In what area of France has the Celtic language been spoken yet?

A) Cornwall

B) Northern central Europe

C) North-western coastline of continental Europe

D) Dutch province of Friesland

E) Brittany Coast or Breton

79. What language was mostly used in written language in the Middle period for the history of English?

A) Latin

B) Frisian

C) Celtic

D) English

E) French

80. What is the most famous example of Middle English (composition)?

A) “The Canterbury Tales”

B) “Beowulf”

C) “The Shepherd Andreas”

D) Printing press

E) Language timeline

81. Which is the common ancestor of all the Germanic languages?

A) Proto-Germanic

B) Proto-English

C) Celtic

D) Latin

E) English

82. What are the most widely spoken Germanic languages?

A) Roman and Slavic

B) Danish and Swedish

C) English and German

D) Norwegian and Faroese

E) Icelandic and Africans

83. When Anglo – Saxons did come to the British Isles?

A) During the 5^th century

B) During the 6^th century

C) During the 8^th century

D) During the 1 century

E) During the 7^th century

84. What event did bring to Saxon England more Latin words into the English language?

A) Great Vowel Shift

B) Scandinavian settlement

C) Norman Conquest

D) Introduction of Christianity

E) The becoming as a ruler of the Danish king, Canute

85. Around 878 AD what tribes did invade England?

A) Inks

B) Jutes

C) Celts

D) Vikings

E) Norman

86. How many lines do the English poem “Beowulf”?

A) 3183 lines

B) 2234 lines

C) 4150 lines

D) 3500 lines

E) 3350 lines

87. To what branch of the Indo-European family of languages does the English language belong?

A) South Germanic

B) East Germanic

C) North Germanic

D) West Germanic

E) There is no right answer

88. What are the years of Middle English?

A) 400-1100 AD

B) 1200-1400 AD

C) 1100-1500 AD

D) 1400-1700 AD

E) 1300-1800 AD

89. When approximately did Old English exist?

A) 450-1100 AD

B) 54-1000 AD

C) 54-5 BC

D) 597-800 AD

E) 1000-600 BC

90. When the literature of the Middle English period was in Old Norman and Latin?

A) 1056

B) 1500

C) 1235

D 1154

E) 1000

91. The languages of which tribes did give rise to the English language?

A) Angles, Saxons, Frisians, Jutes

B) Norwegians, Icelandics, Afrikaans

C) Germans, Indians, Europeans

D) Baltics, Teutons, Vikings

E) Scandinavians, Jutes, Baltics

92. The most famous surviving work from the Old English period is

A) "Beowulf"

B) “Artificial writing”

C) “The Canterbury Tales”

D) “The lover’s confession”

E) “The Voice of the Crying in the Wilderness”

93. Which words did derive from Old English?

A) linen, mile, mill

B) camp, cheese, cook,

C) inch, kettle, kitchen

D) be, strong and water

E) pillow, pin, pound

94. Which event did add more Latin and some Greek words into the Old English period?

A) the introduction of Christianity

B) the Norman conquest

C) the Scandinavian Conquest

D) the battle of Hastings

E) the Celtic invasion

95. The most famous writer from the Middle English period is

A) Geoffrey Chaucer

B) A.W. Franks

C) Noah Webster

D) Cecil Rhodes

E) Samuel Johnson

96. The most famous work from the Middle English period is

A) “The Canterbury Tales”

B) “Utopia”

C) “Novum Organum”

D) "Beowulf"

E) “Artificial writing”

97. The common ancestor of all the languages in a branch of the Indo-European language family is

A) Proto-Norse

B) Icelandic

C) Proto-Germanic

D) Greenlandic Norse

E) Old Norwegian

98. From the time of their earliest attestation, the Germanic varieties are divided into three groups. They are:

A) West, East, North

B) West, South, East

C) East, South, North

D) Middle, South, North

E) East, Middle, North

99. Old Germanic languages of East branch are

A) Afrikaans, Norwegian, Swedish

B) Icelandic, Danish, Frisian

C) Old Norse, Old Saxon, Frisian

D) German, Frisian, Yiddish

E) Gothic, Vandalic, Burgundian

100. The word originally meant “secret”, “mystery”, and later applied to the characters used in writing inscriptions.

A) rune

B) script

C) letter

D) origin

E) dialect

101. Which Germanic tribes did come to the British in the 5^th century?

1. Angles

2. Saxons

3. Jutes

4. Saxons,Angles,and Jutes

5. None of them

101. Which Germanic tribes did come to the British in the 5^th century?

6. Saxons

7. Angles

8. Saxons ,Angles,and Jutes

9. Jutes

10. None of them

102. In what period did Old English exist?

A) 550-1200AD

B) 550-1100AD

C) 600-1100AD

D) 450-1100AD

E) 480-1200AD

103. The most famous example of Middle English is Chaucer’s

1. Great Vowel Shift

2. Beowulf

3. Germanic language

4. Language Timeline

5. The Canterbury Tales

104. The most famous heroic epic poem appeared in Old English period is

1. Beowulf

2. The Canterbury Tales

3. Angles

4. Language Timeline

5. None of them

105. Who did write Beowulf?

A) Adrian Mitchell

B) Samuel Johnson

C) Unknown author

D) Leonard Bernstein

E) Arthur Koestler

106. The most widely spoken Germanic languages are

1. Norwegian and Danish

2. French and German

3. German

4. English and French

5. English and German

107. In what period was Latin mostly used in written form

A) Middle and Modern English

B) Old English

C) Modern English

D) Anglo-Saxon Settlement

E) Middle English

108. English is …. Language

A) South Germanic

B) West Germanic

C) East Germanic

D) North Germanic

E) Middle English

109. When did speakers of the Scandinavian branch conquer and colonize parts of Britain?

A) 8 – 9 c

B) 10 – 11 c

C) 11 – 12 c

D) 13 c

E) 14 – 15 c

110. The most famous literature work from the Old English period is

A) The Canterbury Tales

B) Beowulf

C) House of Fame

D) Sleswick

E) The Vikings

111. The common ancestor of all the languages in the Germanic family of languages is

A) Proto – English

B) Old English

C) Proto – Germanic

D) Middle English

E) Modern English