ACTIVITY OF BRITISH LITERATURE

ANSWER THE  QUESTION


                              THE HISTORY OF THE  ENGLISH  LANGUAGE.

ANSWER  THE QUESTIONS.
1. The ultimate origins of the English language lie in which language family?
(a) Indo-European
(b) Latin
(c) North American

2. What is another name for Old English?
(a) Middle English
(b) Anglo-Saxon
(c) Celtic

3. Which one of the following texts was composed during the Old English period?
(a) The Canterbury Tales
(b) Beowulf
(c) Fyrst Boke of the Introduction of Knowledge

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1. During the Middle English period, many words were borrowed from which two languages?
(a) Celtic and Old Norse
(b) Urdu and Iroquoian
(c) Latin and French

5. Published in 1604, the first monolingual English dictionary was
(a) Nathaniel Bailey's Universal Etymological Dictionary of the English Language
(b) Samuel Johnson's Dictionary of the English Language
(c) Robert Cawdrey's Table Alphabeticall 6. Which Anglo-Irish writer proposed the creation of an English Academy to regulate English usage and "ascertain" the language?
(a) Jonathan Swift
(b) Samuel Johnson
(c) Oliver Goldsmith
6. Who published the book Dissertations on the English Language (1789), which advocated an American standard of usage?
(a) Noah Webster
(b) John Webster
(c) Daniel Webster
7. Which late-19th century novel introduced a colloquial prose style that significantly influenced the writing of fiction in the U.S.?
(a) The Adventures of Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain
(b) Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain
(c) Oroonoko, or the Royal Slave by Aphra Behn

8. The Philological Society's New English Dictionary on Historical Principles, begun in 1879, was eventually published under which title in 1928?
(a) Roget's Thesaurus
(b) The King's English
(c) Oxford English Dictionary

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