Til tarixi (Practice version 0.4)

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1. What group of languages does English belong to?
   1.   Roman
   2.   Germanic
   3.   Celtic
   4.   Balto-Slavic
2. HISTORIA ECCLESIASTICA GENTIS ANGLORUM is written by…
   1.   Geoffrey Chauser
   2.   Venerable Bede
   3.   Ulfilas
   4.   Thomas More
3. Old English begins with…
   1.   the Germanic settlement of Britain
   2.   the Norman Conquest
   3.   the introduction of printing
   4.   the Scandinavian Invasions
4. Mark the line in which the OE dialects are given in a proper way.
   1.   Kentish, West Saxon, Mercian, Northumbrian
   2.   Northern, Midland, Southern
   3.   Kentish, Essex, Wessex, Sussex, Northern
   4.   London, East Anglia, Mercian, Kentish
5. What languages were spoken in the British Isles prior to the Germanic Invasion?
   1.   Celtic, Old English, Scandinavian
   2.   Celtic, Latin
   3.   Gothic, French
   4.   Anglian, Saxonian, Jutish, Frisian
6. Mark the line in which the OE monophthongs are given in a proper way.
   1.   i, ī, e, ē, a, ā, o, ō, u, ū, ү, ỹ, æ, ǽ
   2.   Celtic, Latin
   3.   Gothic, French
   4.   Anglian, Saxonian, Jutish, Frisian
7. Which of the following parallels could go back to an OE prototype with palatal mutation?
   1.   man – men
   2.   good – best
   3.   child – children
   4.   go –went
8. What case did not OE noun employ?
   1.   Nominative
   2.   Genitive
   3.   Dative
   4.   Instrumental
9. Choose the wrong definition for the Nominative case
   1.   can be loosely defined as the case of agent, for it was the case of the subject mainly used with the verbs denoting activity
   2.   could also indicate the subject characterised by a certain quality or state
   3.   could serve as a predicative and as the case of address, there being no special Vocative case
   4.   was the chief case used with prepositions
10. Choose the case to which the following definition regards:
    Being a direct object it denoted the recipient of an action, the result of the action. It was the form that indicated a relationship to a verb. It could be used in some adverbial meanings, e.g. to indicate time or distance.
    1.   Genitive
    2.   Dative
    3.   Accusative
    4.   Nominative
11. In what case form of OE are the underlined words employed?
    sē wulf nimþ and tōdǽlþ þā scēap (the wolf takes and scatters the sheep)
    hine nānes þinges ne lyste (nothing pleased him)
    1.   Genitive
    2.   Dative
    3.   Accusative
    4.   Nominative
12. The total number of declensions in OE nouns, including both the major and minor types, exceeded …
    1.   10
    2.   15
    3.   20
    4.   25
13. Mark the wrong statement for the OE nouns
    1.   Though originally a semantic division gender in OE was not always associated with the meaning of nouns
    2.   In most declensions two, or even three, case forms were homonymous, so that the formal distinction of cases was consistent than that of numbers.
    3.   The morphological classification of OE nouns rested upon the most ancient grouping of nouns according to the stem-suffixes, which consisted of vowels, consonants, sound sequences
    4.   Strong declension of nouns included a-stems, ō-stems, i-stems, u-stems, n-stems.
14. Choose the grammatical categories of the demonstrative pronoun þæt in OE
    1.   Acc. Case, feminine, sing.
    2.   Dat. Case, neuter, sing.
    3.   Acc. Case, neuter, sing.
    4.   Nom. Case, plural
15. The category of case in adjectives differed from that of nouns: in addition to the four cases of nouns, they had one more case: It is…
    1.   genitive
    2.   instrumental
    3.   dative
    4.   accusative
16. Choose the way of form building in degrees of comparison that OE did not employ.
    1.   suffixation
    2.   suffixation plus vowel interchange
    3.   suppletion
    4.   analytical way: by means of auxiliary words
17. Mark the wrong statement for the OE verbs:
    1.   The verb-predicate agreed with the subject of the sentence in two grammatical categories: number and person.
    2.   All the forms of verb were synthetic, as analytical forms were only beginning to appear.
    3.   In OE there were two non-finite forms of the verb: the Infinitive and Participle.
    4.   The category of tense in OE consisted of three categorical forms: Present, Past, Perfect.
18. Which of the following definitions is not true for the strong verbs of OE?
    1.   They had a strong agreement with all parts of speech in the sentence, that is why the verbs are called strong.
    2.   They built their past forms by means of vowel gradation and by repeating the root-morpheme.
    3.   They had seven classes with different gradation series.
    4.   The classes differ in series of root-vowels used to distinguish the four stems: Infinitive, P.sing., P.pl., Participle II.
19. In …William of Normandy conquered Britain, which was not only a great event in British political history but also the greatest single event in the history of the English language.
    1.   980
    2.   1066
    3.   1460
    4.   1266
20. The earliest samples of early ME prose are the new entries made in the… from the year 1122 to the year 1154, known as PETERBOROUGH CHRONICLE
    1.   ANGLO-SAXON CHRONICLES
    2.   POEMA MORALE
    3.   ANCRENE RIWLE
    4.   KING HORN
21. What part of speech in OE do the following words belong: ic, wit, uncer, þū, ēower, mē?
    1.   pronoun
    2.   adjective
    3.   verb
    4.   noun
22. What class of OE pronoun do the following words belong: sē, þæt, sēo, þa?
    1.   personal
    2.   demonstrative
    3.   interrogative
    4.   indefinite
23. Which of the following parts of speech had strong and weak declensions in OE?
    1.   adjective
    2.   pronoun
    3.   verb
    4.   adverb
24. What form of adjective is employed in the underlined adjective of the following phrase: þā menn sindon Ʒōde (the men are good)?
    1.   comparative
    2.   superlative
    3.   weak
    4.   weak
25. What form of adjective is employed in the underlined adjective of the following phrase:
    Þæt wēste land (that uninhabited land)?
    1.   comparative
    2.   superlative
    3.   weak
    4.   strong
26. Mark the true statement for OE verbs.
    1.   The OE verbs had Present and Past tense only.
    2.   The OE verbs had eight grammatical categories.
    3.   The verb-predicate agreed with the subject and object of the sentence.
    4.   Finite forms regularly distinguished between three numbers: sg, pl and dual.
27. The most important event in the changing linguistic situation was the rise of the … dialect as a prevalent written form of language in Late ME.
    1.   Northumbrian
    2.   Mercian
    3.   London
    4.   West Saxon
28. Mark the line, which best indicates ME dialects.
    1.   Southern, Midland, Northern
    2.   Northumbrian, Mercian, West Saxon, Kentish
    3.   Kentish, South Western, East Saxon, West Saxon
    4.   Scottish, Northern, East Midland, West Midland
29. Mark the proper definition for the Middle English period.
    1.   a period of full inflections
    2.   a period of levelled inflections
    3.   a period of lost inflections
    4.   a period of stressed endings
30. Mark the historical event that had occurred till the Anglo-Saxon Conquest.
    1.   Roman Conquest
    2.   Norman Conquest
    3.   Scandinavian Invasion
    4.   War of Roses
31. Mark the consonant shift in the following examples, which does not change according to Grimm’s Law.
    1.   L. piscus – OE. fisc
    2.   R. яблоко – MnE. apple
    3.   CG. macian – HG. machen
    4.   L. cordis – MnE. heart
32. What period did the Great Vowel Shift occur?
    1.   Early Modern English, between the 14th and the 18th c.
    2.   Transitional period between the Old and Middle English periods
    3.   In the Old English period, in the 9th c.
    4.   After Norman Conquest, in 1066.
33. How was digraph wh pronounced in ME?
    1.   [wh]
    2.   [hw]
    3.   [w]
    4.   [h]
34. What sound have monophthong [e:] in ME kēpen, field developed into after the Great Vowel Shift?
    1.   [i]
    2.   [e]
    3.   [i:]
    4.   [ε:]
35. What names had been applied for the family of languages to which English belongs?
    1.   Aryan, Indo-Germanic
    2.   Roman, Italic
    3.   Iranian, Persian
    4.   Germanic, West Germanic
36. Choose the wrong statement:
    1.   The Romans have never conquered England.
    2.   After the Roman Conquest the Romans made the English people speak Latin. Consequently, there are a lot of Latin borrowings in the English language.
    3.   The name “English” is older than the name “England”.
    4.   The English language of today is the language that has resulted from the history of the dialects spoken by the Germanic tribes.
37. This dialect is known form still scantier remains and is the dialect of the Jutes in the southeast. Which of OE dialect is it spoken of?
    1.   Northumbrian
    2.   Mercian
    3.   West Saxon
    4.   Kentish
38. The only dialect in which there is an extensive collection of texts is in the southwest. Nearly all of OE literature is preserved in manuscripts transcribed in this region. With the ascendancy of the West Saxon kingdom it attained something of the position of a literary standard, and both for this reason and because of the abundance of the materials it is made the basis of the study of OE. Which of OE dialect it is spoken?
    1.   Northumbrian
    2.   Mercian
    3.   West Saxon
    4.   Kentish
39. An examination of the words in an OE dictionary shows that about… percent of them are no longer in use.
    1.   40
    2.   50
    3.   75
    4.   85
40. What grammatical categories has OE verb “finde”?
    1.   Mood, tense, number, person and two debatable categories: Aspect and Voice
    2.   Tense, number, person
    3.   Mood, tense, number
    4.   Tense only
41. Which of the following lines reflect the case system of OE nouns?
    1.   Nominative, Genitive, Dative, Accusative
    2.   Nominative, Genitive, Ablative, Locative, Accusative
    3.   Nominative, Vocative, Genitive, Dative, Accusative
    4.   Nominative, Genitive, Dative, Instrumental
42. What period of the English language history is the following definition about?
    It lasts from the 5th century to the end of the 11th; the dates of its end as suggested by various authorities range from 1066, which is the year of Norman Conquest, to 1150.
    1.   the Old English period
    2.   the Middle English period
    3.   the Modern English period
    4.   the Early Middle English period
43. What period of the English language history is the following definition about?
    It lasts from the 12th century to the 15th; the period is believed to have ended in 1475, the year of introduction of printing.
    1.   the Old English period
    2.   the Middle English period
    3.   the Modern English period
    4.   the Early Middle English period
44. What period of the English language history is the following definition about?
    This period means the English of the last 6 centuries. Within it, historians usually distinguish the Early New English period from the 15th century to the 17th, up to the age of Shakespeare.
    1.   the Old English period
    2.   the Middle English period
    3.   the Modern English period
    4.   the Early Middle English period
45. Celts began to settle in Britain in …
    1.   the 7th century BC
    2.   the 4th century BC
    3.   the middle of the 5th century AD
    4.   the 1st century AD
46. Which of the following parallels is not an example for the Great Vowel Shift?
    1.   i: > ai
    2.   e: > i:
    3.   a: > o
    4.   o: > ou
47. Which in the following parallels is not an example for the Great Vowel Shift?
    1.   o: > u:
    2.   o: > ou
    3.   u: > au
    4.   æ: > a
48. Mark the line which definitely indicates the OE diphthongs.
    1.   ea, ēa, eo, ēo, īo, io, ie, īe
    2.   ei, ai, oi, au
    3.   au, ou, eu, iu
    4.   ea, ae, iu, ui, ei, ūe, ōi, īe, oæ
49. Mark the line, which shows all the diphthongs, introduced in Middle English period.
    1.   [au], [εi], [εu], [iu], [ou], [oi]
    2.   [au], [εi], [εu], [iu]
    3.   [au], [εi], [εu], [iu], [ou], [oi], [iə]
    4.   [iə], [oə], [εu], [iu], [ou], [oi]
50. What dialects of ME does the London dialect have roots from?
    1.   West Saxon and East Midland
    2.   Kentish and East Midland
    3.   Southern and West Midland
    4.   Northern and Midland
51. What period and century do the works of Chaucer in the history of the English language belong?
    1.   14 c. – Middle English
    2.   Old English and there is no definite date of his creative period
    3.   13 c. – Old English
    4.   15 c. – Modern English
52. The most important event in the changing linguistic situation was the rise of the … dialect as a prevalent written form of language in Late ME.
    1.   Northumbrian
    2.   Mercian
    3.   London
    4.   West Saxon
53. What family of languages does English belong to?
    1.   Indo-European
    2.   Germanic
    3.   Indo-Germanic
    4.   Roman-German
54. What means of form building is used in the following degrees of comparison of OE: Ʒlæd – Ʒlædra – Ʒladost ?
    1.   suffixation
    2.   suffixation + vowel interchange
    3.   suppletion
    4.   analytical means
55. What means of form building is used in the following degrees of comparison of OE: soft - softra – softest ?
    1.   suffixation
    2.   suffixation + vowel interchange
    3.   suppletion
    4.   analytical means
56. What means of form building is used in the following degrees of comparison of OE: Ʒōd – bettra – betest?
    1.   suffixation
    2.   suffixation + vowel interchange
    3.   suppletion
    4.   analytical means
57. What means of form building is used in the following degrees of comparison of OE: lŷtel - lǽssa - lǽst ?
    1.   suffixation
    2.   suffixation + vowel interchange
    3.   suppletion
    4.   analytical means
58. What is common in the following forms of adjectives: blindes – blindre – blindan- blindra?
    1.   They are Genitive case forms for different grammatical categories of OE adjectives
    2.   They are Masculine forms for four of OE cases
    3.   They belong to Dative Case of different genders
    4.   These are Singular forms of Nominative Case forms
59. What case forms of OE do the following pronouns belong: mīn- uncer- ūre?
    1.   Nominative
    2.   Genitive
    3.   Dative
    4.   Accusative
60. What is common in the following forms of OE pronouns: wīt – uncer- unc - uncit?
    1.   They are Masculine forms in four cases
    2.   They are dual forms of the first person in four cases
    3.   They are plural forms of the first person in four cases
    4.   They are plural forms of the Nominative case in the third person
61. What part of speech had dual number forms in OE?
    1.   Noun
    2.   Adjective
    3.   Pronoun
    4.   Verb
62. Which of the following parallels is an example for the Great Vowel Shift?
    1.   a: > o
    2.   e: > i:
    3.   æ: > a
    4.   y: > i:
63. Which of the following parallels is an example for the vowel changes in ME?
    1.   i: > ai
    2.   e: > i:
    3.   a: > o:
    4.   o: > ou
64. What type of consonants arose in the ME period?
    1.   sibilants and affricates
    2.   plosives
    3.   fricatives
    4.   nasals
65. When did the vowel alterations occur in the following parallells: stān – stone; hŷdan – hīdan; strēām - strēme?
    1.   Early ME: from OE into ME
    2.   Late ME: from ME into MnE
    3.   Early MnE: The Great Vowel Shift
    4.   In the early stage of OE: specifically English vowels were formed
66. How many diphthongs were introduced in the ME period?
    1.   4
    2.   5
    3.   6
    4.   7
67. What is the ME diphthong which did not have its origin from OE?
    1.   ai
    2.   oi
    3.   au
    4.   ei
68. Which of the following diphthongs was not introduced in the ME period?
    1.   εə
    2.   oi
    3.   au
    4.   ou
69. Which of the following pairs was grouped as twofold declension?
    1.   pronouns and nouns
    2.   adjectives and nouns
    3.   verbs and adjectives
    4.   numerals and pronouns
70. What group of OE verbs are following forms accounted for: habban – hæfde – hæfd?
    1.   strong verbs
    2.   weak verbs
    3.   preterite-present verbs
    4.   minor group of verbs
71. What group of OE verbs are following forms accounted for: lōcian – lōcode – lōcod?
    1.   strong verbs
    2.   weak verbs
    3.   preterite-present verbs
    4.   minor groups of verbs
72. What group of OE verbs are following forms accounted for: сēpan – cēpte – cēped?
    1.   strong verbs
    2.   weak verbs
    3.   preterite-present verbs
    4.   minor group of verbs
73. What group of OE verbs are following forms accounted for: sculan – sceolde?
    1.   strong verbs
    2.   weak verbs
    3.   preterite-present verbs
    4.   minor groups of verbs
74. What group of OE verbs are following forms accounted for: wrītan – wrāt – writon – writen?
    1.   strong verbs
    2.   weak verbs
    3.   preterite-present verbs
    4.   minor group of verbs
75. What group of OE verbs are following forms accounted for: findan – fand – fundon – funden?
    1.   strong verbs
    2.   i-stem
    3.   u-stem
    4.   n-stem
76. What stem of OE nouns did weak declension possess?
    1.   a-stem
    2.   i-stem
    3.   u-stem
    4.   n-stem
77. What stem of OE nouns did not strong declension possess?
    1.   a-stem
    2.   i-stem
    3.   u-stem
    4.   n-stem