Name, class: _____________________

Date: _____________________

HISTORY OF THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE – TEST

WRITE IN PEN OR YOUR ANSWERS WON’T BE VALID!

1 Court, judge, verdict, traitor all came from the ________________ language. (1 point)
2 How many stories are there in the Canterbury Tales? ______ (1 point)
3 Which of these words originates from Vikings? (1 point)

a) candle b) belt
c) egg d) wall

4 Which letters in Middle English came instead of þ and ð symbols in Old English? ______ (1 point)
5 How is sċ pronounced? You can use Croatian spelling _____ (1 point)
6 Who is Beowulf? (1 point)
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7 Who is Grendel? (1 point)
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8 What is the Domesday Book? (1 point)
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9 Middle English is a combination of _____________________________________________________.
(1 point)
10 Name four things that changed in in the shift from Old English into Middle English: (1 point)
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11 Which of these is NOT a dialect of Modern English? (1 point)

a) Kentish b) Northern
c) Eastern d) Southern

12 Match the author and the word he invented. (1 point)

Shakespeare blood-stained
Francis Bacon lens
Isaac Newton skeleton

13 Which Shakespeare’s idiom from Henry VI means to keep silent or quiet? ______________________
(1 point)
14 Which Shakespeare’s idiom from Romeo and Juliette means a foolish and hopeless search for
something unattainable? _________________________ (1 point)

TOTAL: _____/15