Top 80+ Solved History of English Language MCQ Questions Answer
Q. Indo European language are believe to derive from a hypothetical language knownas……………..
a. proto – indo- european
b. germanic
c. indo- iranian
d. avestan
Q. 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
Q. ……………..is the language that forms part f the Iranian group
a. avestan
b. english
c. dutch
d. german
Q. The earliest surviving written evidence of a Greek language is………….
a. mycenaean
b. avestan
c. indic
d. germanic
Q. In which language most of the ancient Greek poetry and prose were written?
a. mycenaean
b. greek
c. attic
d. indic
Q. ……………is the last branch of Indo European languages to appear in written form.
a. latvian
b. danish
c. albanian
d. lithuvanian
Q. 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
Q. 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
Q. …………was the dialect of the Jutes who were the earliest settlers in Britain
a. kentish
b. mercian
c. west saxon
d. northumbrian
Q. 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
Q. The dialect of Middle English in which Chaucer wrote his poems
a. east midland
b. west midland
c. south midland
d. central midland
Q. During the Middle English period English came under the strong influence of the………..language.
a. latin
b. french
c. german
d. greek