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1. Which group of people was the first to arrive from the continent after the departure of the Romans from Britain?
Ans. ANGLO,SAXON,JUTES
2. In which year was the Battle of Hastings fought?
Ans. 14TH October , 1066AD
3. Into how many groups are the surviving remains of Old English literature generally divided?
Ans. 6 Groups
4. Why is the 'Battle of Maldon' an important literary piece?
Ans. Because The Battle of Maldon, Old English heroic poem describing a historical skirmish between East Saxons and Viking.
5. Of how many apostles' life stories does 'The Fates of the Apostles' narrate?
Ans. 12
6. Which is a text of the 'Matter of England within the corpus of Middle English Romances?
Ans. The Devolopment of Middle English Romance.
7. The Four PP is an interlude written by whom?
Ans. john Heywood
8. In the Old English epic, whose son is Beowulf?
Ans. Ecgtheow
9. Against which backdrop is Geoffrey Chaucer's Troilus and Criseyde set?
Ans. Troilus and Criseyde set against a backdrop of war during the Siege of Troy.10. In 'The Prologue' to The Canterbury Tales, Chaucer presents three ideal characters on the pilgrimage. Who are they?
Ans. The Knight , The Clerk , The Plowman
11. To which cycle does The Second Shepherd's Play belong?
Ans. Wake Field cycle
12. What do place names ending with suffixes like 'thorp', 'beck' and 'dale' mean?
Ans. Thorpe meant farms , Bake meant brook , Dale meant valley
13. What did the word 'bloom' mean In Old English?
Ans. "Bloom" , which came from Old English "Bloma" meaning lump of metal", means "rough mass of wrought iron"
14. What does the term Anglo-Norman refer to?
Ans. The term "Anglo-Saxon" refers to the settlers from the German regions of Angeln and Saxony, who made their way over to Britain after the fall of the Roman Empire around AD 410.Anglo-Saxon. From the 5th century ce to the time of the Norman Conquest (1066), they inhabited and ruled territories that are today part of England and Wales.
15. From which languages do the words 'breakfast' and 'dinner' derive?
Ans. Old French
16. When did the French word 'limousine' enter the English vocabulary?
Ans. In the BEGINNING OF THE war
17. What does the Latin word 'popig' mean in English?
Ans. People
18. In which period was the word 'custody' borrowed into English?
Ans. Zero Period
19. Approximately how many words did Shakespeare's vocabulary consist of according to Otto
Jespersen?
=Ans. 50000-80000 words
20. "I have no mind for feasting forth tonight'- whose utterance is this?
Ans. Shylock
21. Who had to die for having translated the Bible?
Ans. William Tyndale
22. Who was the first person to translate the entire Bible into English?
Ans. John Wycliffe
23. In which year was the Authorised Version of the Bible published?
Ans. 1611
24. What does the Greek word 'phone' mean?
Ans. Voice, Sound
25. Into how many branches can the study of Phonetics be divided?
Ans. Three
26. Where in the human physiognomy is the larynx situated?
Ans. The larynx is a cartilaginous segment of the respiratory tract located in the anterior aspect of the neck.
27. Of which organ is the blade a part?
Ans. The expanded part of a leaf or petal. Especially a leaf of grass or the broad portion of a leaf as distinct from the petiole
.
28. What kind of plosive is the word 'tub'?
Ans. Alveolar Plosive
29. How many cardinal vowels did the English phonetician Daniel Jones devise?
Ans. 8 VOWELS
30. On what is a pun as a figure of speech based?
Ans. A pun is a joke based on the interplay of homophones — words with the same pronunciation but different meanings. It can also play with words that sound similar, but not exactly the same. The joke’s humor (if any) comes from the confusion of the two meanings.
SHORT NOTES
1) Who translated the following into Old English: Pastoral Care, Ecclesiastical History?
Ans. Alfred translated Pastoral Care and Ecclesiastical History.
2) Name two pioneers of English prose in the Anglo-Saxon period.
Ans. Alfred and Aelfric are the two pioneers of English prose in the Anglo-Saxon period.
3)Name two elegiac poems of the Anglo-Saxon period.
Ans. The Ruined Burg and The Wife's Complaint are the two elegiac poems of the Anglo-Saxon period.
4. Name the poem which continues the narrative of Chaucer's Troilus and Criseyde.
Ans. Robert Henryson's The Testament of Cresseid continues the narrative of Chaucer's Troilus and Criseyde.
5. Why is Geoffrey of Monmouth important in the history of the Middle English romances ?
Ans. Geoffrey of Monmouth is important in the history of the Middle English romances for his Latin history Roman Historia Regum Britanniae which is the chief source-book of the Arthurian romances. Monmouth's history was translated into Norman-French by Wace. Wace's translation (Roman de Brut) is turned (done)
into English by Layamon in his Brut.
6. Name two Middle English Scottish poets who belonged to the school of Chaucer.
Ans. Robert Henryson and William Dunbar were the two Middle English Scottish poets who belonged to the school of Chaucer.
7. Name a popular book of travels of the Middle Ages.
Ans. The travels of John Mandeville is a popular book of travels of the Middle Ages.
8. Who is the writer of the Four P's.
Ans. John Heywood is the writer of The Four P's.
9. What is Chaucer's longest narrative poem ?
Ans. Troilus and Criseyde (8000 lines) is Chaucer's longest narrative poem.
10.. Name the Middle English prose work that prescribes rules for ascetic life.
Ans. Ancren Riwla is the Middle English prose work that prescribes rules for ascetic life.
11.. Which famous poem in the Middle English period is a dream allegory?
Ans. Pearl is a famous dream allegory in the Middle English period.
12.. Name the Medieval author who first translated the New Testament into English.
Ans. John Wyclif is the Medieval author who first translated the New Testament into English.
13. Who wrote Confessio Amantis ? Is it written in Latin or English?
Ans. John Gower wrote Confessio Amentis. It is written in English.
14.Name two poems of the Alliterative Revival.
Ans. Pearl and Patience are two poems of the Alliterative Revival.
15. Name the language which exerted the greatest influence on English literature after 1066.
Ans. French was the language which exerted the greatest influence on English literature after 1066.
16.Name two religious poems of the Middle Ages.
Ans. The Ormulum and (the) Cursor Mundi are the two religious poems of the Middle Ages.
17. Who wrote Historia Regum Britanniae ?
Ans. Geoffrey of Monmouth wrote Historia Regum Britanniae.
18. When did the Norman conquest take place?
Ans. The Norman conquest took place in 1066 A.D.
19. Give the names of the poems written by Chaucer during the French period.
Ans. The names of the poems are: The Romaunt of the Rose,
The Book of the Duchess, The Compleynt unto Pite, An A.B.C and The Compleynt of Mars.
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