Контрольный тест № 2

1.When did the Celts begin to settle in Britain?

a) in the 7^th century BC

b) in the 5^th century BC

c) in the 5^th century AD

2. How long did the Roman occupation of Britain last?

a) nearly 400 years

b) nearly 100 years

c) nearly 40 years

3. What time did the period of Common Germanic last?

a) till the 5^th century AD

b) till the beginning of our era

c) till the 2-3 centuries AD

4. Why were the 2-3 centuries a turning point of the history of the Germanic tribes and their dialect?

a) It was a period of “great migrations”

b) It was a period of earliest written records

c) It was a period of the consolidation of the dialects

5. Which of the following tribes belongs to East Germanic subgroup?

a) Angles b) Jutes c) Goths

6. When did the disintegration of Old Norse into separate dialects begin?

a) after the 9^th century

b) after the 7^th century

c) after the 14^th century

7. How many OE vowels could be found in unstressed syllables?

a) 3 b) 4 c) 5

8. How were OE vowels contrasted through qualitative differences?

a) as long to short

b) as open to close

c) as stressed to unstressed

9. Which of OE consonants were velar?

a) k’ k’: b) t t: c) k k:

10. How many runic inscriptions have been preserved?

a) 2 b) ≈40 c) ≈10

11. Kentish, West Saxon, Mercian and Northumbrian are ...

a) Old Scandinavian dialects

b) OE dialects

c) Celtic dialects

12. “Anglo-Saxon Charters” are …

a) King Alfred’s translations

b) OE poems

c) OE legal documents

13. What dialect had established itself as the written form of English by the 10^th century?

a) Kentish b) West Saxon c) Mercian

14. Beowulf is based on old legends about …

a) tribal life of the Teutons

b) King Alfred

c) Pope Gregory the Great

15. What is OE poetry characterized by?

a) a specific system of versification

b) old legends

c) a great number of borrowings

16. A change in which one unit is replaced by two or more distinct units is …

a) shift b) split c) breaking

17. What is regarded as a sort of Common North Germanic parent-language?

a) Old Norse

b) Old Icelandic

c) Old Swedish

18. Which of the languages belonged to the West Germanic subgroup?

a) Old Dutch

b) Old Scandinavian

c) Old Norwegian

19. Development of the National literary English language refers to …

a) Old English period

b) Middle English period

c) New English period

20. What words constitute the most ancient part of the OE vocabulary?

a) Common Indo-European words

b) Common Germanic words

c) Specific English words

21. How many cases did the OE noun have?

a) 2 b) 3 c) 4

22. How many nominal grammatical categories were there in OE?

a) 4 b) 5 c) 6

23. A way of word-building in which the word changes its paradigm without changing its initial form, a new word belongs to a different part of speech.

a) diphthongization b)gradation c) conversion

24. How many categorical forms did the category of Tense in OE consist of?

a) 2 b) 3 c) 4

25. When did Middle English period begin?

a) in 1066 b) in 1475 c) in 1616