A) castra, Woolwich, Greenport

B) pund, ynce, flasce

C) antefn, biscop, munuc

D) hand, sand, fox

 

51. What consonant change is illustrated by the following pairs of words:

Other OG languages OE NE

Gt. sibun [v] seofon [v] seven

A) Voicing

B) Rhotacism

C) Breaking

D) Hardening

 

52. What consonant change is illustrated by the following pairs of words:

Other OG languages OE NE

Gt. huzd hord hoard

 

A) Hardening

B) Voicing or devoicing

C) Rhotacism

D) Breaking

 

53. What consonant change is illustrated by the following pairs of words:

Other OG languages OE NE

Gt. maiza māra more

 

A) Hardening

B) Voicing or devoicing

C) Rhotacism

D) Breaking

 

54. What consonant change is illustrated by the following pairs of words:

Other OG languages OE NE

Gt. kiusan [s] cēosan [z] choose

 

A) Hardening

B) Voicing

C) Rhotacism

D) Breaking

 

55. What consonant change is illustrated by the following pairs of words:

Other OG languages OE NE

Gt. hlaifs hlāfas loaves

 

A) Hardening

B) Voicing

C) Rhotacism

D) Breaking

 

56. What consonant change is illustrated by the following pairs of words:

Other OG languages OE NE

Gt. guma Ʒuma ‘man’

 

A) Hardening

B) Voicing

C) Rhotacism

D) Breaking

 

57. Choose correctly the sort of reduced case – system the Infinitive had in OE.

A) The Nominative and Dative cases

B) The Nominative and Genitive cases

C) The Nominative and Accusative cases

D) The Genitive and Dative cases

 

 

58. Choose correctly the case of the following OE infinitive to beranne.

A) the “Dative” case

B)the “Genitive” case

C) the “Nominative” case

D) the “Accusative” case

 

59. What consonant change is illustrated by the following pairs of words:

Other OG languages OE NE

O Icel rauðr rēad red

 

A) Voicing or devoicing

B) Rhotacism

C) Breaking

D) Hardening

 

60. Choose correctly the method of word derivation which arose in Late Middle English.

OE Late ME NE

lufu n – lufian vlove n – love (n) v love, n, v

chaunge n – (from Fr) – chaunge (n)vchange, n, v

A) Conversion

B) Sound Interchanges

C) Word Stress

D) Prefixation

 

61.Choose correctly the method of word derivation used as word – building means in the following examples: misjudge, unreasonable, overload.

A) Prefixation

B) Sound Interchanges

C) Word Stress

D) Conversion

 

62. Choose correctly the reason why the missionaries came to England in the sixth century.

A) To spread education

B) To convert England to Christianity

C) To plunder England

D) To build roads and baths

 

63.Choose correctly the language the personal pronouns they and she were borrowed from:

A) Old Scandinavian

B) Anglo - Norman

C) Latin

D) Africaans

 

64. Choose correctly the dialect the following works were borrowed from: haven, knife, take, root.

A) Scandinavian

B) Mercian

C) Saxon

D) Kentish

 

65. Choose correctly the number of words the English took from the French.

A) 5.000

B) 8.000

C) 10.000

D) 9.000

 

66. Choose correctly the name of the Scandinavians who had settled in France.

A) The Alemanias

B) The Swabians

C) The Normans

D) The Teutons

 

67. Choose correctly the date of the Rennaissance in Italy.

A) 410-650

B) 1200-1300

C) 1450-1600

D) 1300-1400

 

68. Choose correctly the country the following words were borrowed from: kangaroo, budgerigar.

A) China

B) Turkey

C) India

D) Australia

 

69. Choose correctly the country the following words were borrowed from: divan, shaul.

A) China

B) Percia

C) India

D) Turkey

 

70. Choose correctly the country the following words were borrowed from:skipper, deck, dock.

A) India

B) China

C) The Netherlands

D) Turkey

 

71. Choose the correct translation of the following OE sentence into Modern English.

Hwæt sceal ic singan?

A) What shall I sing

B) Why shall I sing

C) I shall sing a song

D) I shall not sing

 

72. Choose correctly the case the OE noun metes belongs to.

A) Nominative

B) Genitive

C) Dative

D) Accusative

 

73. Choose correctly the case the OE noun musum belongs to.

A) Nominative

B) Genitive

C) Dative

D) Accusative

 

74. Choose the OE equivalent of the Modern English pronoun they.

A) hira

B) hire

C) he

D) hīe

 

75. Choose correctly the dates of King Alfred’s rule.

A) 871-899

B) 899-902

C) 781-799

D) 861-899

 

76. Find out the Old West Germanic language in the list given below.

A) Old Norse

B) Frisian

C) Anglian

D) Gothic

 

77. Choose the date of the first written records in Old High German.

A) 8th and 9th century

B) 12th and 13th c

C) 3rd and 4th c

D) 19th and 20th c

 

78. Point out the number of components the word consisted of in Old Germanic languages.

A) 4

B) 5

C) 3

D) 2

 

79. Choose the name of the capital of Wessex during the reign of King Alfred.

A) Lancaster

B) London

C) Worcester

D) Winchester

 

80. Point out the survival of the Britonnic branch in modern France.

A) Armorican

B) Erse

C) Kymric

D) Cornish

 

81. Point out the part of Britain occupied by the Angles.