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Which of the statements about the basis of the Old English alphabet seems more true to you?
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a. The Old English alphabet is based on the Runic and Latin alphabet.

b. The Old English alphabet is based on the Latin alphabet with some letters from Runic alphabet. 

c. The Old English alphabet is based on the Latin alphabet.

d. The Old English alphabet is based on the Runic alphabet.

Your answer is correct.

The correct answer is: The Old English alphabet is based on the Latin alphabet with some letters from Runic alphabet.

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Question 2

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What language(s)/dialects was/were spoken by the native population of the British Isles before the Anglo-Saxons settled in?
Select one:

a. Scandinavian dialects

b. Germanic dialects

c. Celtic languages 

d. Latin

Your answer is correct.

The correct answer is: Celtic languages

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Question 3

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Who adapted the Latin alphabet to Old English?

Select one:

a. vikings

b. King Alfred

c. poets

d. missionaries 

Your answer is correct.

The correct answer is: missionaries

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Question 4

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How many letters were in the standard Old English alphabet?

Select one:

a. 26

b. 24 

c. 20

d. 27

Your answer is correct.

The correct answer is: 24

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Question 5

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What was the name of the cowherd who became England's rst Christian poet?
Select one:

a. Alfred

b. AElfric

c. Caedmon 

d. Beowulf

Your answer is correct.

The correct answer is: Caedmon

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Question 6

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Roughly what percentage of words in Old English are loan words?

Select one:

a. 20

b. 8

c. 3 

d. 50

Your answer is correct.

The correct answer is: 3

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Question 7

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From what language are the following Old English borrowings?

skirt, ugly, egg, ill, husband
Select one:

a. Latin

b. French

c. Old Norse 

d. Celtic

Your answer is correct.

The correct answer is: Old Norse

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Question 8

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What are the vivid gurative words in Old English?

Select one:

a. learnings

b. kennings 

c. gatherings

d. mixings

Your answer is correct.

The correct answer is: kennings

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Question 9

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What languages in uenced the English language in its development?

Select one:

a. all three 

b. Latin

c. French

d. Old Norse

Your answer is correct.

The correct answer is: all three

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Question 10

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What is the approximate number of lexemes in the surviving Old English corpus?
Select one:

a. 24,000 

b. 12,000

c. 50,000

d. 1000

Your answer is correct.

The correct answer is: 24,000

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Question 11

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What is the technical name of the sound-change seen in foot > feet if you know that Old English fot originally had dative singular foti?
Select one:

a. Grimm's law

b. Verner's law

c. ablaut

d. I-mutation 

Your answer is correct.

The correct answer is: I-mutation

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Question 12

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Write the endings for declension of this Old English noun: grund 'ground' a-stem.

Singular

Nominative grund

Accusative grund

Genetive grund es 

Dative grund e 

Plural

Nominative grund as 

Accusative grund as 

Genetive grund a 

Dative grund um 

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Question 13

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How do we call the following Old English words?

Old English feorh-hus (life-house) – Modern English body

Old English feorh-gedal (life separation) – Modern English death
Old English heofon-candel (heaven candle) – Modern English sun
Old English heafod-gim (head jewel) – Modern English eye

Answer: Archaic 

The correct answer is: kennings

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Question 14

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Which semantic eld predominated in early Latin Borrowings in Old English?

Select one:

a. law

b. education

c. biology

d. religion 

Your answer is correct.

The correct answer is: religion

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Question 15

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For each of the reconstructed Indo-European roots listed below, complete the reconstructed Germanic derivative and the Old and Modern English words by supplying the
consonant that resulted from the operation of Grimm's Law. The same consonant occurs in Germanic, Old English, and Modern English. Write this consonant and a modern
English word borrowed from Latin.

Indo-European Germanic Old English Modern English Borrowing from

Latin
*pisk *__iska __isk
f  pisces

ish 
*kerd *__ertōn __eorte
h  cordial

eart 
*dent *__anthus *__ōþ
t  dental

ooth 
*kaput *____aubidam __ēafod
h  capital

ead 
*bher- ‘to *__eran __eran
b 
carry’
ear
*dekṃ *__ehun __īen
t  decimal

en 
*trei *__rijiz __rīe
th 

ree

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Question 16

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Mutation or umlaut is a change in the quality of a vowel resulting from its assimilation to a neighboring sound. In the following pairs, the rst word has a mutated vowel
omitted from its spelling, and the second word is a related form without mutation. Supply the missing vowel.

d e  man 'to judge' / dōm 'judgement';

f y  llan 'to ll' / full 'full';

sc y  rtest 'shortest' / sceort 'short';

str e  ngest 'strongest' / strang 'strong';

m y  s 'mice' / mus 'mouse';

i  ldra 'elder' / eald 'old'

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Question 17

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What is the name of the dragon Beowulf killed?

Select one:

a. Troll

b. Hengest

c. Wayland

d. Grendel 

Your answer is correct.

The correct answer is: Grendel

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Question 18

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Which one of these areas was not a member of the Anglo-Saxon Kingdom?
Select one:

a. Northumbria

b. East Anglia

c. Wales 

d. Mercia

Your answer is correct.

The correct answer is: Wales

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Question 19

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Locate the four main Old English dialects on the map.

Northumbrian

Mercian

Kentish
West Saxon

Your answer is correct.

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Question 20

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We can trace the roots of several different words in Modern English back to a single Indo-European form. Complete the following chart,
using the words provided, to illustrate several word histories.

kerd

kardia cord herton

kardiakos coraticum cordialis

corage heorte

Your answer is correct.

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Question 21

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Which language had the biggest effect on English during the Old English period?
Select one:

a. Latin

b. French

c. Celtic

d. Old Norse 

Your answer is correct.

The correct answer is: Old Norse

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Question 22

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Which one of the following word classes was in ected in Old English?
Select one:

a. conjunctions

b. prepositions

c. interjections

d. pronouns 

Your answer is correct.

The correct answer is: pronouns

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Question 23

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Which dialect of the Old English period is considered to have been the most important?
Select one:

a. Northumbrian

b. West-Saxon 

c. Mercian

d. Kentish

Your answer is correct.

The correct answer is: West-Saxon

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