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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?

=14TH October , 1066AD

3. Into how many groups are the surviving remains of Old English literature generally divided?

=6 Groups

4. Why is the 'Battle of Maldon' an important literary piece?

=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?

=12

6. Which is a text of the 'Matter of England within the corpus of Middle English Romances?

=The Devolopment of Middle English Romance.

7. The Four PP is an interlude written by whom?

=john Heywood

8. In the Old English epic, whose son is Beowulf?

=Ecgtheow

9. Against which backdrop is Geoffrey Chaucer's Troilus and Criseyde set?

= 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?

=The Knight , The Clerk , The Plowman

11. To which cycle does The Second Shepherd's Play belong?

=Wake Field cycle

12. What do place names ending with suffixes like 'thorp', 'beck' and 'dale' mean?

= Thorpe meant farms , Bake meant brook , Dale meant valley

13. What did the word 'bloom' mean In Old English?

= "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?

= 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?

= Old French

16. When did the French word 'limousine' enter the English vocabulary?

=In the BEGINNING OF THE war

17. What does the Latin word 'popig' mean in English?

=People

18. In which period was the word 'custody' borrowed into English?

=Zero Period

19. Approximately how many words did Shakespeare's vocabulary consist of according to Otto

Jespersen?

=50000-80000 words

20. "I have no mind for feasting forth tonight'- whose utterance is this?

= Shylock

21. Who had to die for having translated the Bible?

= William Tyndale

22. Who was the first person to translate the entire Bible into English?

= John Wycliffe

23. In which year was the Authorised Version of the Bible published?

= 1611

24. What does the Greek word 'phone' mean?

= Voice, Sound

25. Into how many branches can the study of Phonetics be divided?

=Three

26. Where in the human physiognomy is the larynx situated?

= 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?

=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'?

=Alveolar Plosive

29. How many cardinal vowels did the English phonetician Daniel Jones devise?

=8 VOWELS

30. On what is a pun as a figure of speech based?

= 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.