On several occasions, Henry I confiscated the estates of unruly Norman Barons.

• A) English
• B)
• C)
• D)

Write the name of the period from 450 to 1150.

• A) Old English
• B)
• C)
• D)

Choose the correct option. Chaucer�s prioress spoke French, though she told her tale to the Canterbury pilgrims in .

• A) English
• B)
• C)
• D)

The literature of the is the richest and the most significant of any preserved literatures among the early Germanic people.

• A) Anglo-Saxons
• B)
• C)
• D)

Hundred years� War is probably to be reckoned as one of the causes contributing to the disuse of .

• A) French
• B)
• C)
• D)

Choose the correct option. In early Middle English, only method/s of indicating the plural remained fairly distinctive.

• A) Two
• B)
• C)
• D)

The inflection of the Old English indicates distinctions of numbers (singular and plural) and case.

• A) noun
• B)
• C)
• D)

Choose the correct option In private and semi-official correspondence, French was at its height in about .

• A) 1350
• B)
• C)
• D)

The Black Death spread rapidly in England, reaching its height in .

• A) 1349
• B)
• C)
• D)

Choose the correct option The difference that one notice between Old and Modern English concern spelling and pronunciation, and .

• A) Lexicon and grammar
• B)
• C)
• D)

Choose the correct option Was the language best understood by the upper classes in the 15 th century.

• A) French
• B)
• C)
• D)

In Old English were a fertile resource in word building and particularly a feature in the formation of verbs.

• A) Prefixes
• B)
• C)
• D)

Choose the correct option. The Middle English period ranging from was marked by momentous changes in the English language.

• A) 1150-1500
• B)
• C)
• D)

The Wales belong to .

• A) Briton
• B)
• C)
• D)

By 1250, the �strong declension� had distinctive forms for singular and plural only in certain adjectives which ended in a consonant in Old English.

• A) monosyllabic
• B)
• C)
• D)

In Old English, the vowel of the tense often differs in the singular and plural.

• A) past
• B)
• C)
• D)

In Middle English, the inflections are very much compared to Old English.

• A) reduced
• B)
• C)
• D)

Which one is not the meaning of English word �wealh�? Native Welshman Briton Foreigner

• A) N/A
• B)
• C)
• D)

New functional morphemes cannot normally be .

• A) coined
• B)
• C)
• D)

The main three branches of phonetics are articulatory, and auditory.

• A) acoustic
• B)
• C)
• D)