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A. Answer questions below by choosing correct answers.

1. The ultimate origins of the English (a) Language for common people.
language lie in which language family? (b) Language for clergymen.
(a) Indo-European (c) Language of the liturgy.
(b) Latin
7. When was the first dictionary published?
(c) North American
2. What is another name for Old English? (a) 1701
(a) Middle English (b) 1604
(b) Anglo-Saxon (c) 1511
(c) Celtic 8. What is the main difference between Old
3. Which one of the following texts was and Middle English?
composed during the Old English period? (a) Use
(a) The Canterbury Tales
(b) Politics
(b) Beowulf
(c) Fyrst Boke of the Introduction of (c) Vocabulary
Knowledge 9. Which one is closer to English spoken in
4. During the Middle English period, many Shakespearean era?
words were borrowed from which two (a) Canadian English
languages? (b) British English
(a) Celtic and Old Norse (c) American English
(b) Urdu and Iroquoian 10. What makes Standard English looks similar
(c) Latin and French to English dialect spoken in London?
5. Which of the following did not occur as a (a) The early publishing companies were
result of the Norman Conquest? located around London.
(a) The English aristocracy was either killed or (b) British government forced people to use
forced into exile. Standard English.
(b) French became the language of the (c) London dialect sounds better than the rest
common Englishman. of dialects in the UK.
(c) The King of England was technically a
vassal of the French King.
6. What was the function of Latin during
Middle English?

Short answer questions

1. What is Shakespeare’s role in English language?
2. Why does Standard English look similar to English dialect spoken in London area?