1. blending or telescoping

2. Shortening

3. reduplication

4. compounding

5. back-formation

8. The word story is an example of

1. initial clipping

2. final clipping

3. medial clipping

4. reduplication

5. sound interchange

9. What is polysemy

1. the existence within one word of several connected meanings

2. the ability of words to coincide in their sound forms

3. the existence of contrastive meanings within a word

4. the existence of only one meaning within words

5. words with opposite meanings

10. Homographs are

1. words identical in spelling, but different both in their sound-form and meaning

2. words identical in sound-form, but different both in spelling and in meaning

3. words identical in sound-form, but different in meaning

4. words identical in meaning, but different in spelling

5. words identical in spelling and sound-form meaning, but different in meaning

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1. Who proposed the periods in the History of English Language?

1. Henry Sweet

2. Karl Verner

3. Jacob Grimm

4. William Shakespeare

5. Vinagradov

2. How many regions did Henry Sweet give?

1. 3

2. 6

3. 7

4. 2

5. 4

3. Old English period is ……

1. the period of full endings

2. the period of leveled or reduced endings

3. the period of lost endings

4. the period of coming barbarians

5. the period of doing examples

4. Middle English period is ……

1. the period of leveled or reduced endings

2. the period of full endings

3. the period of lost endings

4. the period of coming barbarians

5. the period of doing stones

5. Modern English period is ……

1. the period of lost endings

2. the period of full endings

3. the period of leveled or reduced endings

4. the period of coming barbarians

5. the period of doing stones

6. What kind of another division is there?

1. extralinguistic

2. linguistic

3. grammatical

4. phonetic

5. morphological

7. According to the extralinguistic division Old English begins:

1. 700 AD

2. 1100

3. 1500

4. 2000

5. 1970

8. According to the extralinguistic division Middle English period begins:

1. 1100

2. 700 AD

3. 1500

4. 2000

5. 1970

9. According to the extralinguistic division Modern English period begins:

1. 1500

2. 700 AD

3. 1100

4. 2000

5. 1970

10. According to the extralinguistic division Old English period begins and lasts:

1. 700 AD – 1100

2. 1100 – 1500

3. 1500 – present time

4. 2001 – 2030

5. 1970 – 1919

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1. According to the extralinguistic division Middle English period begins and lasts:

1. 1100 – 1500

2. 700 AD – 1100

3. 1500 – present time

4. 2001 – 2030

5. 1917 – 1919

2. According to the extralinguistic division Modern English period begins and lasts:

1. 1500 – present time

2. 1100 – 700 AD

3. 1100 – 1500

4. 2001 – 2030

5. 1917 – 1919

3. Modern English Language belongs to:

1. Western group of the Indo-European family

2. East group of the Indo-European family

3. North group of the Indo-European family

4. South group of the Indo-European family

5. South - West group of the Indo-European family

4. According to the Old Written documents Old German languages are divided into:

1. 3

2. 6

3. 7

4. 10

5. 20

5. According to the Old Written documents Old German languages are divided into:

1. East German; North German; West German

2. North German; South German

3. East German

4. West German; South German

5. North German; East German

6. Gothic Language belongs to:

1. East German group

2. West German group

3. North German group

4. South German group

5. Middle German group

7. Old English language belongs to:

1. western group

2. eastern group

3. northern group

4. southern group

5. west – east group

8. Who conquered all the country around the Mediterranean Sea?

1. Romans

2. Scots

3. Iberians

4. Picts

5. Celts

9. Who was the head of the Roman Army?

1. Julius Ceasar

2. Henry Sweet

3. Karl Verner

4. William Shakespeare

5. Jacob Grimm

10. First invasion of Roman Army was in:

1. 55 BC

2. 54 BC

3. 43 AD

4. 700 AD

5. 60 AD

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1. Second invasion of Roman Army was in ……

1. 54 BC

2. 55 BC

3. 43 AD

4. 700 AD

5. 60 AD

2. Third invasion of Roman Army was in ……

1. 43 AD

2. 55 BC

3. 54 BC

4. 700 AD

5. 60 AD

3. Who came to conquer Britain after Romans?

1. Jutes and Saxons

2. Celts

3. Picts

4. Scots

5. Romans

4. How many Kingdoms were formed on the territory of Britain by the end of the 6^th and the beginning of the 7^th centuries?

1. 7

2. 10

3. 20

4. 3

5. 5

5. When was the beginning of the feudal relations?

1. in the 8^th – 9^th centuries

2. 6^th – 7^th centuries

3. 5^th centuries

4. 1^st – 3^rd centuries

5. 4^th centuries

6. What was it which influenced the new feudal relations?

1. Christian church

2. invasions

3. kingdoms

4. books

5. discoveries

7. When did Roman Pope send his monks?

1. in 597

2. in 1822

3. in 449

4. in 405

5. in 335

8. How many monks did Roman Pope send to Britain?

1. 40

2. 100

3. 300

4. 500

5. 2

9. The monks learned Anglo – Saxons to read and write in ……

1. Latin

2. Gothic

3. German

4. French

5. Flemish

10. During the 9^th – 10^th centuries Western Europe was troubled by a new wave of barbarian attacks. They came from ……

1. the North

2. the South

3. the East

4. the West

5. South – East

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1. In different countries the Northmen were known as ……

1. Vikings, the Danes

2. Scots

3. Picts

4. Celts

5. Britons

2. How many dialects were on the territory of Great Britain in the 6^th century?

1. 7

2. 10

3. 13

4. 3

5. 5

3. There existed such kind of dialects……

1. Northumbrian; Kentish; Mercian; East-Anglian;Wessex; Sussex.

2. Wessex; Sussex.

3. East-Anglian; Northumbrian; Mercian.

4. Kentish and Sussex

5. only Sussex

4. In the 8^th century the country had already …… main dialects.

1. 4

2. 7

3. 10

4. 12

5. 3

5. How many alphabets were used in OE?

1. 2

2. 4

3. 10

4. 1

5. 7

6. What is the Ruthwell Cross?

1. a religions poem

2. play

3. letter

4. copy-book

5. plate

7. What is the Runic Casket?

1. Runic document

2. play

3. poem

4. letter

5. copy-book

8. Alfred the Great was born in ……

1. 849

2. 2030

3. 597

4. 405

5. 337

9. The first consonant shift was given by the great German linguist ……

1. Jacob Ludwig Grimm

2. Karl Verner

3. Vinagradov

4. Hilton

5. Byron

10. The first consonant shift was given by the great German linguist Jacob Grimm in ……

1. 1822

2. 597

3. 1917

4. 2001

5. 1919

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1. To what languages does the English language belong?

a) Germanic

b) Scandinavian

c) Latin

d) French

e) Danish

2. What are three subgroups of Common Germanic language?

a) East Germanic, North Germanic, West Germanic

b) East Germanic, South Germanic, West Germanic

c) North Germanic, South Germanic, West Germanic

d) East Germanic, North Germanic, South Germanic

e) Angles, Saxons, Jutes

3. A country, consisting of seven smaller autonomous regions is a ….

a) heptarchy

b) hegemony

c) federation

d) kingdom

e) country

4. Who is the author of “The Canterbury Tales”?

a) J. Chaucer

b) J. Grimm

c) Tacitus

d) W. Caxton

e) H. Sweet

5. What was the strongest kingdom at the end of the 9^th century?

a) Wessex

b) Kent

c) Mercia

d) East Anglia

e) Northhumbria

6. How many tenses were in old Germanic languages?

1. 2

2. 6

3. 7

4. 3

5. 4

7. What kind of tenses were in German languages?

1. Present and Past

2. Past

3. Present

4. Future

5. Present Perfect

8. How many aspects of the old Germanic languages do you know?

1. 3

2. 7

3. 10

4. 2

5. 1

9. What kind of aspects were in old Germanic verb?

1. continuous, momentaneous, resultative

2. continuous, resultative

3. resultative only

4. continuous only

5. momentaneous only

10. Old Germanic strong verbs nowadays

1. irregular verbs

2. regular verbs

3. modal verbs

4. link verbs

5. auxiliary verbs

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1. Old Germanic Preterite – Present verbs nowadays

1. modal verbs

2. irregular verbs

3. regular verbs

4. link verbs

5. auxiliary verbs

2. Old English vowels include ……

1. diphthongs

2. consonant

3. short syllable

4. long syllable

5. vowels

3. Old English diphthongs can be ……

1. short and long

2. beautiful and ugly

3. comfortable

4. nice

5. irregular

4. Old English consonant system consists of ……

1. labial, dental, velar sounds

2. dental sounds only

3. velar sounds only

4. labial sounds only

5. labia-dental sounds

5. How many different classes of verbs were in old English?

a) 10

b) 5

c) 12

d) 2

e) 4

6. What is mutation or umlaut?

1. It is a change of vowel caused by partial assimilation to the following vowel.

2. It is diphthongization of short vowels.

3. It is the letter change z>r.

4. It is the result of consonant shift.

5. It is the position of stress.

7. What is Back or Velar Mutation?

1. The essence of back mutation is the articulation of the back vowel is anticipated in the preceding front vowel, which according develops into a diphthong.

2. The result of consonant shift

3. The letter change z>r

4. The position of stress

5. It is a change of vowel

8. What is the voicing of fricatives?

1. When the voiceless fricative surrounded by voiced sound becomes voiced.

2. When the voiced fricative surrounded by voiceless sound becomes voiceless.

3. It is the result of the consonant shift.

4. It is the letter change z>r.

5. It is the diphthongization of short vowels

9. What is the invoicing of fricatives?

1. When the voiced fricative surrounded by voiceless sounds becomes voiceless

2. When the voiceless fricative surrounded by voiced sound becomes voiced.

3. It is the result of the consonant shift.

4. It is the letter change.

5. It is the diphthongization of short vowels

10. Stress in old English mostly falls on the ……

1. first syllable

2. second

3. third

4. final

5. tenth syllable

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1. Old English substantives have such kind of grammatical categories as ……

1. A) gender, case, number

2. B) number only

3. C) case only

4. D) gender and number

5. E) case and number

2. In the neuter substantives the ending depends on …… factors

1. 2

2. 3

3. 10

4. 1

5. 20

3. Old English substantives have a number

1. singular and plural

2. singular only

3. plural only

4. nominative case

5. gender

4. Old English substantives have a gender

1. masculine, feminine, neuter

2. neuter only

3. masculine only

4. feminine only

5. neuter and feminine

5. Old English substantives have …… cases.

1. 4

2. 2

3. 7

4. 6

5. 10

6. Old English substantives have …… numbers.

1. 2

2. 4

3. 7

4. 6

5. 5

7. Old English nominative case in Russian is

1. A) именительный падеж

2. B) родительный падеж

3. C) дательный падеж

4. D) винительный падеж

5. E) творительный падеж

8. Old English genitive case in Russian is ……

1. A) родительный падеж

2. B) дательный падеж

3. C) творительный падеж

4. D) винительный падеж

5. E) именительный падеж

9. Old English dative case in Russian is ……

1. A) дательный падеж

2. B) винительный падеж

3. C) творительный падеж

4. D) именительный падеж

5. E) родительный падеж

10. Old English accusative case in Russian is ……

1. A) винительный падеж

2. B) именительный падеж

3. C) творительный падеж

4. D) родительный падеж

5. E) дательный падеж

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1. What are Germanic tribes conquered the Scots and Celts?

a) the Angles, the Saxons, the Jutes

b) the Norse-men

c) the Vikings, the Angles

d) the Romans, the Picts

e) the Angles, the Jutes

2. Old English Romans had ……

1. two numbers, 4 cases; persons and gender

2. 4 cases only

3. two numbers only

4. persons and gender

5. persons only

3. Old English adjectives had ……

1. numbers, cases, genders

2. gender only

3. cases only

4. numbers only

5. cases and genders

4. Old English adjectives have ……

1. strong and weak declensions

2. strong declension only

3. comfortable declension

4. fine declension

5. ugly declension

5. Old English verbs had ……

1. numbers, moods, tenses, persons

2. persons, cases, tenses

3. numbers, moods, tenses

4. tenses and moods

5. moods only

6. Old English had …… tenses.

1. 2

2. 3

3. 4

4. 5

5. 6

7. Old English had …… moods

1. 3

2. 2

3. 4

4. 10

5. 20

8. Old English verbs had two tenses.

1. Present and Past

2. Past only

3. Present only

4. Future

5. Present Continuous

9. Old English verbs had moods.

1. indicative, subjunctive and imperative

2. imperative only

3. indicative only

4. subjunctive only

5. indicative and subjunctive

10. What kind of verbs were there?

1. Infinitive; first and second participles

2. first participle

3. second participle

4. Infinitive

5. Past Tense

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1. Morphological word – building is subdivided into …… types.

1. two

2. three

3. ten

4. five

5. seven

2. Morphological word – building is subdivided into two types.

1. affixation and composition

2. prefix and suffix

3. prefix and composition

4. suffix and composition

5. suffix

3.…… play rather an important role in Old English.

1. suffixes

2. prefixes

3. affixes

4. root

5. ending

4. The words formed with the help of joining two or more stems into one word. It is called ……