The heathon god �Tiw� is named after .

• A) Tuesday
• B)
• C)
• D)

Which of the following shires does Shakespeare belong to?

• A) Berkshire
• B) Buckinghamshire
• C) Bedfordshire
• D) Warwickshire

The year in which Geoffrey Chaucer�s �Canterbury Tales� were written was .

• A) 1387
• B)
• C)
• D)

What is orthography?

• A) All the given options
• B) punctuation
• C) emphasis
• D) spellings

In the 14th and 15th centuries, London was: o The political capital of England o Commercial center of England o Focus of the social and intellectual activities o

• A) All of the given
• B)
• C)
• D)

What is the meaning of the word “fastidious” in the present age?

• A) Disgusting
• B) Fussy
• C) Proud
• D) Distasteful

Bede in his Ecclesiastical History of the English People, completed in 731, tells us that the Germanic tribes that conquered England were . Choose the correct option. Jutes Saxons Angles All the other

• A) N/A
• B)
• C)
• D)

Choose the correct option.
Renaissance is a period of ___________.

• A) enthusiasm
• B) willingness
• C) all the given options
• D) eagerness

Choose the correct option. Romances owned by Richard II in 1385 were in , but he spoke English fluently.

• A) French
• B)
• C)
• D)

Who refused to accept inkhorn terms in English language?

• A) John Milton
• B) John Dryden
• C) George Puttenham
• D) Alexander Pope

An anti-foreign movement in England culminated in the year�s war.

• A) hundred
• B)
• C)
• D)

What is a non-literary language?
Choose the correct option.

• A) Language of prose
• B) Business language
• C) Language of novels
• D) Poetic language

Due to the use of , there was an indirect effect on inflect ions (loss) and simplification of grammar.

• A) French
• B)
• C)
• D)

Some verb forms like ___________ predominate by the end of the sixteenth century.

• A) tells, gives, says
• B) pantofle,staddle, mugwump
• C) all the given options
• D) uhtceare, grubbling, rawgabbit

Latin was the language of . Choose the correct option.

• A) Romans
• B)
• C)
• D)

When was the book “The New World of English Words” published?

• A) 1658
• B) 1700
• C) 1550
• D) 1600

One of the consequences of the decay of inflections in Old English was the elimination of grammatical in Middle English.

• A) gender
• B)
• C)
• D)

In the sixteenth and early seventeenth century, ________ standard was accepted and people were sticking to it.

• A) London
• B) Manchester
• C) Liverpool
• D) Leeds

The vowel sounds of Old English relate to early .

• A) West Saxon
• B)
• C)
• D)

In recent times, even when the vowel has been restored in standard speech, the weakened form is generally apparent in __________ speech and in the dialects.

• A) semiformal
• B) formal
• C) all the given options
• D) informal