Til tarixi (Test version 0.4)

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TEST on TIL TARIXI
Jami 20 from 77 ta savol
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1. 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.   1460
   2.   1066
   3.   980
   4.   1266
2. 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.   West Saxon
   2.   London
   3.   Northumbrian
   4.   Mercian
3. 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 Early Middle English period
   2.   the Old English period
   3.   the Modern English period
   4.   the Middle English period
4. Mark the line which definitely indicates the OE diphthongs.
   1.   au, ou, eu, iu
   2.   ea, ēa, eo, ēo, īo, io, ie, īe
   3.   ei, ai, oi, au
   4.   ea, ae, iu, ui, ei, ūe, ōi, īe, oæ
5. What part of speech in OE do the following words belong: ic, wit, uncer, þū, ēower, mē?
   1.   verb
   2.   adjective
   3.   pronoun
   4.   noun
6. What is common in the following forms of adjectives: blindes – blindre – blindan- blindra?
   1.   They are Masculine forms for four of OE cases
   2.   These are Singular forms of Nominative Case forms
   3.   They are Genitive case forms for different grammatical categories of OE adjectives
   4.   They belong to Dative Case of different genders
7. What period did the Great Vowel Shift occur?
   1.   Transitional period between the Old and Middle English periods
   2.   After Norman Conquest, in 1066.
   3.   Early Modern English, between the 14th and the 18th c.
   4.   In the Old English period, in the 9th c.
8. What group of OE verbs are following forms accounted for: habban – hæfde – hæfd?
   1.   preterite-present verbs
   2.   weak verbs
   3.   strong verbs
   4.   minor group of verbs
9. Which of the following lines reflect the case system of OE nouns?
   1.   Nominative, Genitive, Ablative, Locative, Accusative
   2.   Nominative, Genitive, Dative, Instrumental
   3.   Nominative, Genitive, Dative, Accusative
   4.   Nominative, Vocative, Genitive, Dative, Accusative
10. Which of the following parallels is not an example for the Great Vowel Shift?
    1.   a: > o
    2.   e: > i:
    3.   i: > ai
    4.   o: > ou
11. How many diphthongs were introduced in the ME period?
    1.   7
    2.   5
    3.   6
    4.   4
12. Which of the following parallels is an example for the vowel changes in ME?
    1.   o: > ou
    2.   a: > o:
    3.   i: > ai
    4.   e: > i:
13. Old English begins with…
    1.   the Scandinavian Invasions
    2.   the Germanic settlement of Britain
    3.   the introduction of printing
    4.   the Norman Conquest
14. What group of languages does English belong to?
    1.   Celtic
    2.   Balto-Slavic
    3.   Germanic
    4.   Roman
15. Choose the wrong definition for the Nominative case
    1.   could serve as a predicative and as the case of address, there being no special Vocative case
    2.   was the chief case used with prepositions
    3.   can be loosely defined as the case of agent, for it was the case of the subject mainly used with the verbs denoting activity
    4.   could also indicate the subject characterised by a certain quality or state
16. Mark the line, which shows all the diphthongs, introduced in Middle English period.
    1.   [au], [εi], [εu], [iu], [ou], [oi], [iə]
    2.   [au], [εi], [εu], [iu], [ou], [oi]
    3.   [iə], [oə], [εu], [iu], [ou], [oi]
    4.   [au], [εi], [εu], [iu]
17. What sound have monophthong [e:] in ME kēpen, field developed into after the Great Vowel Shift?
    1.   [i]
    2.   [e]
    3.   [i:]
    4.   [ε:]
18. Celts began to settle in Britain in …
    1.   the 1st century AD
    2.   the 7th century BC
    3.   the 4th century BC
    4.   the middle of the 5th century AD
19. What means of form building is used in the following degrees of comparison of OE: Ʒōd – bettra – betest?
    1.   suffixation + vowel interchange
    2.   analytical means
    3.   suppletion
    4.   suffixation
20. Which of the following parallels is an example for the Great Vowel Shift?
    1.   y: > i:
    2.   æ: > a
    3.   e: > i:
    4.   a: > o