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ENGLISH
PAPER V
ENGLISH LANGUAGE AND LITERARY GRITICISM
PART 1
1. Indo European language
are believe to derive from a hypothetical language known as……………..
A. proto – indo- european
B. germanic
C. indo- iranian
D. avestan
Answer: A. proto – indo-
european
2. The earliest possible
end of Proto- Indo- European linguistic unity is believed to be around
A. 3300 b c e
B. 3400 bce
C. 3000 bce
D. 4000 bce
Answer: B. 3400 bce
3. ……………..is the language
that forms part f the Iranian group
A. avestan
B. english
C. dutch
D. german
Answer: A. avestan
4. The earliest surviving
written evidence of a Greek language is………….
A. mycenaean
B. avestan
C. indic
D. germanic
Answer: A. mycenaean
5. In which language most
of the ancient Greek poetry and prose were written?
A. mycenaean
B. greek
C. attic
D. indic
Answer: C. attic
6. Insular celtic
flourished in………….
A. england
B. ireland
C. germany
D. france
Answer: B. ireland
7. ……………is the last branch
of Indo European languages to appear in written form.
A. latvian
B. danish
C. albanian
D. lithuvanian
Answer: C. albanian
8. The term applied to
certain changes in vowel in accented syllables owing to the influence ofneighbouring
sounds
A. umlaut or mutation
B. ablaut
C. consonant shift
D. vowel shift
Answer: A. umlaut or
mutation
9. Most of the important
literary works of the Old English period were written in the ……….dialect
A. mercian
B. kentish
C. northumbrian
D. west saxon
Answer: D. west saxon
10. Beowulf was written in
………..dialect
A. mercian
B. west saxon
C. kentish
D. northumbrian
Answer: B. west saxon
11. …………was the dialect of
the Jutes who were the earliest settlers in Britain
A. kentish
B. mercian
C. west saxon
D. northumbrian
Answer: A. kentish
12. Which among are the
dialects of Middle English?
A. mercian, northumbrian,
northern
B. west saxon, kentish,
east midland
C. northern, the midland,
the southern
D. kentish, midland,
mercian
Answer: C. northern, the
midland, the southern
13. The dialect of Middle
English in which Chaucer wrote his poems
A. east midland
B. west midland
C. south midland
D. central midland
Answer: A. east midland
14. During the Middle
English period English came under the strong influence of the………..language.
A. latin
B. french
C. german
D. greek
Answer: B. french
15. Identify a word from
French language which is common in usage.
A. ox
B. calf
C. sheep
D. beef
Answer: D. beef
16. “ It is melancholy to
think what English dinner table would have been like had there been noNorman
Conquest” Whose words are these
A. chomsky
B. f t wood
C. a c baugh
D. macaulay
Answer: C. a c baugh
17. The influence of
Renaissance is most clearly seen in the introduction of a large number of ……..
and …………… words into English during the early modern English period.
A. greek and latin
B. french and latin
C. greek and german
D. german and latin
Answer: A. greek and latin
18. The term Inkhorn term
refers to………..words and expressions borrowed indiscriminatelyfrom the classical
languages
A. french
B. latin
C. german
D. west saxon
Answer: B. latin
19. The Anglican Prayer
Book was first issued in………….
A. 1456
B. 1540
C. 1549
D. 1500
Answer: C. 1549
20. ………….had translated
the Bible in 1588
A. king james
B. coverdale
C. tyndale
D. purvey
Answer: D. purvey
21. The history of the
English Bible begins with the work of …………..in 1526
A. tyndale
B. purvey
C. coverdale
D. king james
Answer: D. king james
22. Authorized version of
Bible was published in…………
A. 1600
B. 1611
C. 1612
D. 1687
Answer: B. 1611
23. The authorized version
of Bible was made according to the suggestions of ……….
A. coverdale
B. dr johnson
C. king james i
D. king james ii
Answer: C. king james i
24. The vocabulary of the
authorized version of the Bible adopted mainly from…..
A. kentish
B. latin
C. french
D. anglo saxon
Answer: D. anglo saxon
25. “ After reading St.
Paul’s epistle to the Hebrews, Homer and Virgil are disgustingly tame tome Milton
himself barely tolerable” Who said these words?
A. tennyson
B. coleridge
C. wordsworth
D. arnold
Answer: B. coleridge
26. Printing was
introduced into England in 1476 by …………….
A. william bailey
B. coverdale
C. william caxton
D. william jones
Answer: C. william caxton
27. Which dialect was used
by William Caxton for printing ?
A. west midland
B. east midland
C. kentish
D. central midland
Answer: B. east midland
28. The remarkable changes
in the pronunciation of vowels which took place during the transition from
Middle English to Modern English are commonly referred to as the ………
A. great vowel shift
B. consonant shift
C. addition
D. mutation
Answer: A. great vowel
shift
29. The Old English Period
has been called the period of …………
A. leveled inflections
B. lost inflection
C. less inflection
D. full inflection
Answer: D. full inflection
30. The Middle English
Period has been called the period of ……………
A. leveled inflections
B. lost inflection
C. less inflection
D. full inflection
Answer: A. leveled
inflections
31. The New English Period
has been known as……………
A. leveled inflections
B. lost inflection
C. less inflection
D. full inflection
Answer: B. lost inflection
32. “ How barbarously we
yet write and speak. Your lordship knows, and I am sufficientlysensible in my
own English” Whose words are these?
A. tennyson
B. dryden
C. johnson
D. wordsworth
Answer: B. dryden
33. in the 18th century
the need for standardization and regulation of English was summed up in the
word………..
A. standardization
B. addition
C. ascertainment
D. regularization
Answer: C. ascertainment
34. Who defined
ascertainment as a “settled rule, an established standard.”
A. dryden
B. tennyson
C. swift
D. dr. johnson
Answer: D. dr. johnson
35. “ A proposal for
Correcting, Improving and Ascertaining the English Tongue” is the title of the
letter by ………….
A. swift
B. dryden
C. tennyson
D. dr. johnson
Answer: A. swift
36. Dr. Jonhson’s “ A
Dictionary of the English Language” was published in ………
A. 1765
B. 1766
C. 1755
D. 1789
Answer: C. 1755
37. Who is the author of “
A Dictionary of the English Language?
A. jonson
B. dr. johnson
C. swift
D. king james
Answer: B. dr. johnson
38. Who is the author of
the book “Practical Grammar of the English Tongue”
A. william jones
B. werner
C. dr. johnson
D. william loughton
Answer: D. william
loughton
39. “The Rudiment of
English Grammar” was written by………
A. joseph priestley
B. william loughton
C. werner
D. dr. johnson
Answer: A. joseph
priestley
40. Who is the author of “
The British Grammar”?
A. robert lowth
B. james buchanan
C. loughton
D. swift
Answer: B. james buchanan
41. Who of the following
announced that many languages came from one old base language?
A. sir william jones
B. sassetti
C. jacob grimm
D. joseph greenberg
Answer: A. sir william
jones
42. What was the second
earliest form of language seen on earth?
A. cave drawings
B. cuneiform
C. english
D. indo- european
Answer: B. cuneiform
43. Which f the following
words might be of Vicking Descent?
A. skate
B. crabby
C. rate
D. a and b
Answer: D. a and b
44. Around how many words
did Shakespeare invent?
A. 20.000
B. 9, 000
C. 10,000
D. 8000
Answer: A. 20.000
45. During the Middle
English period, many words were borrowed from which two languages?
A. celtic and old norse
B. latin and french
C. urdu and iroquoian
D. spanish and latin
Answer: B. latin and
french
46. Which Anglo- Irish
writer proposed the creation of an English Academy to regulate EnglishUsage and
“ascertain” the language?
A. jonathan swift
B. samuel johnson
C. dryden
D. oliver goldsmith
Answer: A. jonathan swift
47. 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
D. webster’s dictionary
Answer: C. oxford english
dictionary
48. “The Ecclesiastical
History of the English People”, a key source f information about Anglo Saxon
settlement is the work of ……….
A. william jones
B. venerable bede
C. king james i
D. william langland
Answer: B. venerable bede
49. Who is the author of
The First English Dictionary?
A. dr. johnson
B. robert cawdrey
C. john wilkins
D. thomas sheridon
Answer: B. robert cawdrey
50. The First English
Dictionary “ Table Alphabeticall” was published in…..
A. 1608
B. 1700
C. 1678
D. 1604
Answer: D. 1604
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