Choose correctly the number of the main regions the Danelaw comprised: D)5

33. Choose correctly the name of the person elected to succeed Edward the Confessor

B) Harold Godwin (son)

Choose correctly the number of Scandinavian borrowings which belong to Standard English. B)700

Find out the Old East Germanic language in the list given below. D) Gothic

36. Point out the survival of the Gaelic branch in Ireland. C)Erse

37. Choose correctly the language the following words were borrowed from: law,

husband, bulk, egg, happy, ugly. A) Old Scandinavian

38. Choose the dates of the 2^nd period in the history of English - Written OE. D)700-1066

39. Define the case the OE noun tala (-ena) belongs to. B)Genetive

40. Define the case the OE noun mūsum (root - stem., F) belongs to. C)Dative

41. Determine the class of the strong verb helpan. B)3

42. Determine the form of the OE weak verb dēmde. B) Past Tense

43. Choose correctly the form of the degree of comparison of the OE adjective bettra.

D) Comparative

44. Choose correctly the form of the degree of comparison of the OE adjective softest. C)Superlative

45. Choose correctly the form of the degree of comparison of the OE adjective ieldra.

A) Comparative

46. Choose correctly the form of the degree of comparison of the OE adjective ealdest.

C) Superlative

47. Choose correctly the form of the degree of comparison of the OE adjective māra.

B) Comparative

48. Choose correctly the form of the degree of comparison of the OE adjective wēriƷra.

A) Comparative

49. Choose correctly the words which belong to the 1^st layer of Latin borrowings.

A) pund, ynce, flasce

50. Choose correctly the words which belong to the 2^nd layer of Latin borrowings.

A) castra, Woolwich, Greenport

51. What consonant change is illustrated by the following pairs of words:

Other OG languages OE NE

Gt. sibun [v] seofon [v] seven

A) Voicing

52. What consonant change is illustrated by the following pairs of words:

Other OG languages OE NE

Gt. huzd hord hoard

C) Rhotacism

53. What consonant change is illustrated by the following pairs of words:

Other OG languages OE NE

Gt. maiza māra more

C) Rhotacism

54. What consonant change is illustrated by the following pairs of words:

Other OG languages OE NE

Gt. kiusan [s] cēosan [z] choose

B) Voicing

55. What consonant change is illustrated by the following pairs of words:

Other OG languages OE NE

Gt. hlaifs hlāfas loaves

B)Voicing

56. What consonant change is illustrated by the following pairs of words:

Other OG languages OE NE

Gt. guma Ʒuma ‘man’

A) Hardening

57. Choose correctly the sort of reduced case – system the Infinitive had in OE.

A) The Nominative and Dative cases

58. Choose correctly the case of the following OE infinitive to beranne.

A) the “Dative” case

59. What consonant change is illustrated by the following pairs of words:

Other OG languages OE NE

O Icelrauðr rēad red

D) Hardening

60. Choose correctly the method of word derivation which arose in Late Middle English.

OE Late ME NE

lufu n – lufian v love n – love (n) v love, n, v

chaunge n – (from Fr) – chaunge (n) v change, n, v

A) Conversion

61. Choose correctly the method of word derivation used as word – building means in the following examples: mis judge, un reasonable, over load.

A) Prefixation

62. Choose correctly the reason why the missionaries came to England in the sixth century.

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