History of English Language Quiz | History of English Language Online Test for Practice

31. We must realize that language is

1. Static
2. Fixed
3. Unvarying
4. Evolutionary

32. What is the other name for Primitive Germanic?

1. Esperanto
2. Teutonic
3. Italic
4. Gothic

33. What was said to be the theory that came from automatic human responses to pain, fear, surprise, laugh etc

1. Ding-dong Theory
2. Pooh-Pooh Theory
3. The Ta-ta Theory
4. Bow-wow Theory

34. Which dialect attained prominence during the middle English period

1. West Saxon
2. East Midland
3. Northern England
4. East Saxon

35. Which dialect became the standard of Old English?

1. West Saxon
2. Kentish
3. Celtic
4. Yorkshire

36. Which of the four dialects became the most dominant in the Old English period?

1. Northumbrian
2. Mercian
3. Wessex
4. Kentish

37. Which theory holds that man?s earliest speech was produced by an attempt to imitate the sounds of creatures or objects he was referring?

1. Bow wow theory
2. Ding dong theory
3. Pooh-pooh theory
4. Gesture theory

38. Which theory of language origin is developed by Wilhelm Wundt and Sir Richard Paget?

1. The pooh-pooh theory
2. The gesture theory
3. The ding-dong theory
4. Onomatopoeia

39. Who established the beginnings of the modern English legal system?

1. The Normans
2. The French
3. The Scandinavians
4. The Germans

40. Who was the famous Old English writer who wrote Canterbury Tales?

1. John Lydgate
2. John Wyclif
3. Geoffrey Chaucer
4. John Babour