B) the border line between the Roman empire and the Celtic territory

A) Sometime between the 15th and 10th c B.C

B) Sometime between the 5th and 1st c B.C

C) Sometime between the 25th and 20th c B.C

D) Sometime between the 3rd and 5th c A.D

 

2. When did Ulfilas, a West Germanic bishop, make a translation of the Gospels from Greek into Gothic using a modified form of the Greek alphabet?

A) in the 10th c A.D

B) in the 4th c A.D

C) in the 4th c B.C

D) in the 10th c B.C

 

3. Choose the date of the establishment of the Written Standard of New High German.

A) 11th c

B) 16lh c

C) 14th c

D) 18th c

 

4. Point out the vowel change explaining the vowel modification in Proto-Germanic:

PIE PG

L mater OE modor

R мать

A) breaking

B) palatal mutation

C) independent vowel change

D) splitting

 

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

R болото OE pōl

R слабый OE slæpan

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

B) Act l

C) Act 3

D) Act 2

 

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

Sanscrit bhārāmi OE bere

Sanscrit bhrāta OE brōþor

A) Act 3

B) Act l

C) Act 2

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

 

7. Point out the number of components the word consisted of in Early PG.

A) 2

B) 5

C) 3

D) 4

 

8. Point out the phonetic change which accounts for the difference between the vowels in:

GT auso OE eare NE ear

GT kiusan OE ceosan NE choose

GT diups OE deop NE deep

A) Diphthongisation

B) Breaking

C) Palatal Mutation

D) Development of diphthongs in Early OE

 

9. Point out the phonetic change which accounts for the vowel interchange in hwæl - hwalas (Nom, sg. and pl. M. - a), NE whale.

A) Splitting of [a]

B) Palatalisation

C) Breaking

D) Lengthening in open syllables

 

10. Point out the phonetic change which took place in Proto-Germanic:

PIE PG

L.nox G nacht

R. ночь

 

A) breaking

B) palatal mutation

C) independent vowel change

D) splitting

 

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

L pedis OE fōt

R пена OE fām

A) Act l

B) Act 3

C) Act 2

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

 

12. 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

 

13. 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

 

14. 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

 

15. 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

 

 

16. 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.

A) 4

B) 3

C) 2

D) 6

 

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

A) Celtic

B) Latin

C) Basque

D) French

 

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

A) With mining and plunder

B) With war

C) With animals and birds

D) With art

 

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

A) 2.000

B) 10.000

C) 20.000

D) 1.000

 

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

A) China

B) Turkey

C) India

D) Australia

 

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

A) The Germans

B) The Danes

C) The Celts

D) The Ibirians

 

26. Choose correctly what Hardrian’s wall represented.

A) the border line between the Angles and the Jutes

B) the border line between the Roman empire and the Celtic territory

C) the border line between the Roman empire and the Anglo-Saxon

D) the border line between the Scots and the Picts

 

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

A) 9000 words

B) 900 words

C) 10000 words

D) 1000 words

 

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

A) Irish

B) Cornish

C) Brittome

D) Welsh

 

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

A) The Venerable Bede

B) Julius Caesar

C) W. Shakespeare

D) J. Chaucer

 

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

A) 866

B) 449

C) 1066

D) 787

 

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

A) 839 – 889

B) 801 – 899

C) 809 – 852

D) 849 – 899

 

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

A) 4

B) 3

C) 6

D) 5

 

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

A) Duke William

B) Harold Godwin (son)

C) Gregory I

D) Canute the Great

 

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

A) 600

B) 700

C) 1700

D) 1000

 

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

A) Old Norse

B) Frisian

C) Anglian

D) Gothic

 

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

A) Armorican

B) Kymric

C) Erse

D) Cornish

 

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

husband, bulk, egg, happy, ugly.

A) Old Scandinavian

B) Anglo - Norman

C) Latin

D) Africaans

 

38. Choose the dates of the 2nd 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.

A) Nominative

B) Genitive

C) Dative

D) Accusative

 

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

A) Genitive

B) Nominative

C) Dative

D) Accusative

 

41. Determine the class of the strong verb helpan.

A) 2

B) 3

C) 5

D) 7

 

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

A) Participle II

B) Past Tense

C) Infinitive

D) Past plural

 

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

A) Positive

B) Supplative

C) Superlative

D) Comparative

 

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

A) Supplative

B) 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

 

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

A) Positive

B) Comparative

C) Superlative

D) Indicative

 

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

A) Positive

B) Comparative

C) Superlative

D) Indicative

 

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

A) Comparative

B) Positive

C) Superlative

D) Indicative

 

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

A) pund, ynce, flasce

B) castra, Woolwich, Greenport

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

 

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