MCQ Bank
Which of the following periods has connection with the Great Vowel Shift?
- A) Modern age
- B) Renaissance age
- C) Victorian age
- D) Chaucer’s age
What is orthography?
- A) emphasis
- B) punctuation
- C) spellings
- D) All the given options
Which of the following is a modern word?
- A) Maketh
- B) Leadeth
- C) Kith
- D) Noteth
Which of the following best defines the term 'idiom’?
- A) All of given options
- B) A style of speaking peculiar to a people
- C) The peculiar character of a language
- D) Not predictable from the usual meanings
Which of the following shires does Shakespeare belong to?
- A) Berkshire
- B) Buckinghamshire
- C) Bedfordshire
- D) Warwickshire
What is orthography?
- A) All the given options
- B) punctuation
- C) emphasis
- D) spellings
What is the meaning of the word “fastidious” in the present age?
- A) Disgusting
- B) Fussy
- C) Proud
- D) Distasteful
Choose the correct option.
Renaissance is a period of ___________.
- A) enthusiasm
- B) willingness
- C) all the given options
- D) eagerness
Who refused to accept inkhorn terms in English language?
- A) John Milton
- B) John Dryden
- C) George Puttenham
- D) Alexander Pope
What is a non-literary language?
Choose the correct option.
- A) Language of prose
- B) Business language
- C) Language of novels
- D) Poetic language
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
When was the book “The New World of English Words” published?
- A) 1658
- B) 1700
- C) 1550
- D) 1600
In the sixteenth and early seventeenth century, ________ standard was accepted and people were sticking to it.
- A) London
- B) Manchester
- C) Liverpool
- D) Leeds
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
Which of the following shires does Shakespeare belong to?
- A) Warwickshire
- B) Bedfordshire
- C) Buckinghamshire
- D) Berkshire
In the 15th century, all the long vowels of English language gradually came to be pronounced with a greater ___________ of the tongue and closing of the mouth.
- A) vibration
- B) elevation
- C) opening
- D) closing
What is the one word solution for “all manner of learning” for Sir Thomas Elyot?
Choose the best option.
- A) Dictionary
- B) Circle of doctrine
- C) Encyclopedia
- D) Science
Which language did become famous for philosophy in the Renaissance period?
- A) French
- B) English
- C) Greek
- D) German
The invention of __________ about the middle of the fifteenth century exercised a far reaching influence on all the vernacular languages of Europe.
- A) printing
- B) computers
- C) internet
- D) laser
Mark Antony’s “This was the most unkindest cut of all” is an instance of ______________.
Choose the correct option.
- A) double comparative
- B) dangling modifier
- C) wrong adjective
- D) article problem