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d Saxons
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5 In the centuries after 1066, thousands of _____
words were taken into English.
a German b Norwegian c Spanish
d French
6 The first person to work on the Oxford English
Dictionary came from _____.
a Wales b England c Ireland
d Scotland
7 The first successful English settlers in America
called their town _____.
a Jamestown b Queenstown
c Charlestown d Kingstown
8 At first, New York was called New _____.
a England b Amsterdam c Germany
d Paris
9 Millions of people from _____ were sent to
America to work as slaves on large farms.
a South Africa b Australia
c West Africa d Scotland
10 Tucker is a slang word for food in _____.
a America b Ireland c Canada
d Australia
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People
Choose the best answer.
11 _____ won an important battle against the
Vikings.
a King William the Conqueror b King
Charles the First c King Alfred
d Queen Elizabeth the First
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12 Beowulf is a poem written in _____.
a Middle English b Latin
c Old English d Modern English
13 Chaucer wrote a poem about a group of people
who travelled to _____.
a Canterbury b London c Edinburgh
d Dover
14 William Caxton brought _____ to England in
1476.
a an army b a new language c the
Black Death d the printing machine
15 When Queen Elizabeth the First died, her _____
became king of England.
a brother b cousin c husband
d son
16 The English translation of the Bible ordered by
_____ was used in churches for hundreds of years.
a William Shakespeare b King John
c King James the First d Samuel Johnson
17 After King _____ was killed, England was
without a king for many years.
a Alfred b William the Conqueror
c James the Second d Charles the First
18 _____ worked on an important English
dictionary for nine years.
a William Shakespeare b Samuel Johnson
c William Caxton d King James the First
19 Noah Webster wrote a dictionary of _____
English.
a Canadian b American c Irish
d Australian
20 Some people in Ireland and Scotland speak _____.
a Gaelic b Latin c Sanskrit
d Old English
20 marks
Facts
Choose the best answer.
21 About _____ million people have English as
their first language.
a 40 b 4,000 c 4 d 400
22 Sanskrit is a very old language of _____.
a India b Italy c China d Germany
23 The word Thursday was named after the Anglo-
Saxon god of _____.
a war b love c thunder d the sea
24 The Anglo-Saxons used the ending -ford for a
place _____.
a near a forest b for crossing a river
c in the mountains d where people lived
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25 The Wife of Bath, the Cook and the Monk are
characters in a book by _____.
a Geoffrey Chaucer b William Caxton
c Samuel Johnson d William Shakespeare
26 The expressions tongue-tied and love is blind
were made by _____.
a Geoffrey Chaucer b William Langland
c William Shakespeare d King James the First
27 A group of English settlers travelled to _____ in
the ship the Mayflower.
a Australia b Denmark c France
d America
28 Online is a word found in _____.
a Middle English b Norman French
c Old English d Modern English
29 In American English, the past participle of get is
_____.
a gotten b got c getted d gat
30 In Cockney rhyming slang, bread means _____.
a funny b money c time d butter
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Vocabulary
Choose the best answer.
31 to express something in a different language
a pronounce b invade c survive
d translate
32 this is used to hurt or kill people
a source b weapon c variety d plan
33 relaxed, not serious
a informal b official c organized
d important
34 to enter another country by force
a translate b settle c invade
d replace
35 a word that describes a person or thing (like old
or red)
a noun b adjective c pronoun
d verb
36 to remain, stay alive
a replace b invade c decide
d survive
37 a hundred years
a dialect b plan c century d class
38 to put words on paper using a machine
a print b translate c replace
d describe
39 normal, not unusual
a particular b foreign c ordinary
d famous
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40 to make your home in a new country
a settle b develop c control d replace
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Events
Choose the best answer.
41 After the Anglo-Saxons arrived in Britain, many
of the _____ went west into Wales and Cornwall.
a French b Romans c Celts
d Kurgans
42 King Alfred made an agreement with the _____
to divide England in two.
a Romans b French c Celts d Vikings
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43 King Alfred decided to make _____ the language
of learning and literature.
a English b German c French d Latin
44 William the Conqueror was made king of
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England on _____ 1066.
a New Years Day b Christmas Day
c 1 April d Easter Sunday
45 _____ had large stone castles built so that his
soldiers could control England.
a King Alfred b King William the
Conqueror c King James the First
d Queen Elizabeth the First
46 In 1337, the Hundred Years War between _____
started.
a England and Scotland b The Romans
and the Celts c England and France
d The Vikings and the Anglo-Saxons
47 The Black Death was _____.
a an illness b a type of gun c a book
d a war
48 In the 1750s, Thomas Sheridan gave talks about
the _____ of English words.
a history b spelling c meaning
d pronunciation
49 After working on the Oxford English Dictionary
for five years, James Murray _____.
a was halfway through b had reached the
word ant c had finished d had reached
the word nylon
50 The words jazz and cool were introduced by the
_____.
a East Europeans b Australians
c Scots-Irish d African-Americans
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