10. Point out the act of Grimm's law the following examples belong to:

R два OE twā

R еда OE etan

A) Act l

B) Act 3

C) Act 2

D) The examples do not belong to Grimm's law

10. Point out the form-building means employed in the following examples from Germanic and non-Germanic languages:

L ego R я OE ic

Mei меня min

Mihi мне me

A) Sound interchange

B) Suppletion

C) Inflection

D) Verner's law

10. Point out the act of Grimm's law the following examples belong to:

L Genu OE cnēo

L vidēre OE witan

A) Act 1

B) Act 2

C) Act 3

D) The examples do not belong to Grimm's law

10. Point out the means employed in building the principal forms of the Gothic strong verbs:

Inf Past sg Past pl Participle 2

Bindan band bundum bundans

A) Inflection

B) Suppletion

C) Ablaut (vowel gradation)

D) Verner's law

10. Point out the period of Celtic migrations.

A) the 1st millennium B.C

B) the 1st с A.D

C) the 2nd millennium B.C

D) the 3rd - 4th с A.D

17. When was Britain invaded by the Roman legions under Emperor Claudius?

A) In A.D 43

B) In 4 с B.C

C) In 54 B.C

D) In A.D 55

18. Choose the date when Julius Caesar made two raids on Britain.

A) in 55 and 54 B.C.

B) in 43 A.D.

C) in the 8th c

D) in the 11th c

19. Choose the date when the Roman troops were officially withdrawn to Rome by Constantine.

A)in 410 A.D.

B) in 420 A.D.

C) in 500 A.D.

D) in 499 A.D.

20. Choose correctly the number of English dialects the invaders spoke.

1. 4

2. 3

3. 2

4. 6

21. Choose correctly the language the following words come from: Thames, Severn, London.

1. Celtic

2. Latin

3. Basque

4. French

21. Choose correctly what words borrowed from the German are associated with.

1. With mining and plunder

2. With war

3. With animals and birds

4. With art

21. Choose correctly the number of words used by Shakespeare in his works.

1. 2.000

2. 10.000

3. 20.000

4. 1.000

21. Choose correctly the country the following words were borrowed from: cockatoo, chintz.

1. China

2. Turkey

3. India

4. Australia

21. Choose correctly the name of the first Indo – European speakers to arrive on the land mass now called England.

1. The Germans

2. The Danes

3. The Celts

4. The Ibirians

21. Choose correctly what Hardrian’s wall represented.

1. the border line between the Angles and the Jutes

2. the border line between the Roman empire and the Celtic territory

3. the border line between the Roman empire and the Anglo-Saxon

4. the border line between the Scots and the Picts

21. Choose correctly the total number of Scandinavian borrowings in English.

1. 9000 words

2. 900 words

3. 10000 words

4. 1000 words

21. Choose correctly the Celtic language which was spoken in Cornwall till the 18-th c.

1. Irish

2. Cornish

3. Brittome

4. Welsh

21. Choose correctly the name of the author of the great work “The Ecclesiastical History of the English people”.

1. The Venerable Bede

2. Julius Caesar

3. W. Shakespeare

4. J. Chaucer

21. Choose correctly the date of the first Viking raid in England.

1. 866

2. 449

3. 1066

4. 787

21. Choose correctly the dates of King Alfred’s life.

1. 839 – 889

2. 801 – 899

3. 809 – 852

4. 849 – 899

21. Choose correctly the number of the main regions the Danelaw comprised.

1. 4

2. 3

3. 6

4. 5

21. Choose correctly the name of the person elected to succeed Edward the Confessor.

1. Duke William

2. Harold Godwin (son)

3. Gregory I

4. Canute the Great

21. Choose correctly the number of Scandinavian borrowings which belong to Standard English.

1. 600

2. 700

3. 1700

4. 1000

21. Find out the Old East Germanic language in the list given below.

A) Old Norse

B) Frisian

C) Anglian

D) Gothic

21. Point out the survival of the Gaelic branch in Ireland.

1. Armorican

2. Kymric

3. Erse

4. Cornish

21. Choose correctly the language the following words were borrowed from: law,

husband, bulk, egg, happy, ugly.

1. Old Scandinavian

2. Anglo - Norman

3. Latin

4. Africaans

38. Choose the dates of the 2^nd period in the history of English - Written OE.

A) 1476-1660

B) 1666-1800

C) 1800-1945

D) 700-1066

39. Define the case the OE noun tala (-ena) belongs to.

1. Nominative

2. Genitive

3. Dative

4. Accusative

39. Define the case the OE noun mūsum(root - stem., F) belongs to.

1. Genitive

2. Nominative

C) Dative

D) Accusative

39. Determine the class of the strong verb helpan.

1. 2

2. 3

3. 5

4. 7

39. Determine the form of the OE weak verb dēmde.

1. Participle II

2. Past Tense

3. Infinitive

4. Past plural

39. Choose correctly the form of the degree of comparison of the OE adjective bettra.

A) Positive

B) Supplative

C) Superlative

D) Comparative

39. Choose correctly the form of the degree of comparison of the OE adjective softest.

1. Supplative

2. Positive

C) Superlative

D) Comparative

45. Choose correctly the form of the degree of comparison of the OE adjective ieldra.

A) Comparative

B) Positive

C) Superlative

D) Indicative

45. Choose correctly the form of the degree of comparison of the OE adjective ealdest.

A) Positive

B) Comparative

C) Superlative

D) Indicative

45. Choose correctly the form of the degree of comparison of the OE adjective māra.

A) Positive

B) Comparative

C) Superlative

D) Indicative

45. Choose correctly the form of the degree of comparison of the OE adjective wēriƷra.

A) Comparative

B) Positive

C) Superlative

D) Indicative

45. Choose correctly the words which belong to the 1^st layer of Latin borrowings.

A) pund, ynce, flasce

B) castra, Woolwich, Greenport

C) hand, sand, fox D) antefn, biscop, munuc

45. Choose correctly the words which belong to the 2^nd layer of Latin borrowings.