1. The Greek and the the Latin

2. The Germanic and the Runic

3. The Greek and the Germanic

4. The Runic and the Latin

5. The Jewish and the Aramaic

252. When did the Great Vowel Shift begin?

1. In 1200 AD

2. In 1400 AD

3. In 55 BC

4. In 43 BC

5. In 1150 AD

253. When did Geoffrey Chaucer start writing the Canterbury Tales?

A) 1389

B) 1400

C) 1388

D) 1480

E) 1390

254. When did William Caxton establish the first English printing press?

A) 1600

B) 1500

C) 1480

D) 1479

E) 1482

255. When was Shakespeare’s first folio published?

A) 1650

B) 1700

C) 1623

D) 1723

E) 1263

256. Which alphabets were used in Old English?

A) Greek

B) Runic and Latin

C) Latin and Greek

D) Runic and Greek

E) Chinese and Runic

257. What religious poem was written in Old English?

A) Boswell’s biography

B) Canterbury Tales

C) Beowulf

D) Ruthwell Cross

E) Shakespeare poem

258. When did the period of lost ending occur?

A) Proto English

B) Middle English

C) Modern English

D) Old English

E) Between Old and Middle English

259. When was Henry Sweet born?

A) 1600

B) 1912

C) 1400

D) 1845

E) 1850

260. What author did suggest division of the history of English according to the state of unstressed endings?

A) Samuel Johnson

B) William Shakespeare

C) Geoffrey Chaucer

D) William Caxton

E) Henry Sweet

261. Anglian dialect spoken from the Humber north to the river Forth is:

A) Northumbrian

B) Kentish

C) West Saxon

D) Mercian

E) Cockney

262. The period of leveled endings is:

A) Proto English

B) Middle English

C) Modern English

D) Old English

E) English Renaissance

263. Which process does mean a change of vowel caused by partial assimilation to the following vowel?

A) Contraction

B) Fracture

C) Palatalization

D) Mutation

E) Loss of consonants

264. What does Old English word “sceacan” mean?

A) Send

B) Short

C) Shine

D) Say

E) Shake

265. Which alphabet did replace Runic in Old English system?

A) German

B) Greek

C) English

D) Latin

E) French

266. Which Old English document was made of whale bone?

A) Ruthwell Cross

B) Runic Cusket

C) Canterbury Tales

D) Beowulf

E) Faerie Queene

267. A dialect spoken in the area known now as Kent and Surrey and in the Isle of Wight is:

A) Kentish

B) West Saxon

C) Mercian

D) Northumbrian

E) Cornwall

268. The main dialect of the Saxon group, spoken in the rest of England south of the Thames and the Bristol Channel, except Wales and Cornwall, where Celtic tongues were preserved is:

A) Northumbrian

B) Kentish

C) Mercian

D) West Saxon

E) East Saxon

269. A dialect derived from the speech of southern Angles and spoken chiefly in the kingdom of Mercia is:

A) Kentish

B) Humber

C) Northumbrian

D) Mercian

E) Anglian

270. A dialect spoken from the Humber north to the river Forth is:

A) Wight

B) Mercian

C) Kentish

D) Northumbrian

E) West Saxon

271. What does the process of mutation mean?

A) Diphthongization of short vowels before certain

B) A change of vowel caused by partial assimilation to the following vowel consonant clusters

C) Lengthening of vowel in Certain Conditions

D) Voicing and unvoicing of Fricatives

E) Phonetic change which consists in two sounds exchanging their places

272. A phonetic change which consists in two sounds exchanging their places is:

A) Palatalization

B) Stress

C) Metathesis

D) Mutation

E) Contraction

273. Diphthongization of short vowels before certain consonant clusters is:

A) Gradation

B) Palatalization

C) Old English Fracture

D) Umlaut

E) Contraction

274. Which dialect is represented by the works of king Alfred?

1. The Mercian

2. The Kentish

3. The Northumbrian

4. The West-Saxon

5. The East-Saxon

275. Which alphabet was used in poems of Ruthwell Cross?

1. Latin

2. Germanic

3. Greek

4. Runic

5. French

276. Which dialect is represented by translation of the Psalter and hymns?

1. The Northumbrian

2. The Kentish

3. The West-Saxon

4. The East-Saxon

5. The Mercian

277. Who was the author of “Beowulf”?

1. Unknown

B) William Shakespeare

C) King Alfred

D) Somerset Maugham

E) Adrian Mitchell

278. What is the base of division of the history of English according to Henry Sweet?

1. Grammatical structure of language

2. The changes in vocabulary

3. The phonetic changes

4. The state of unstressed endings

5. The types of word-building