Quiz OE Language and History

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QUIZ: OLD ENGLISH 

Language and History

Who lived in Britain when the Romans arrived?

1. Britons
2. Celts
3. Anglo-Saxons
4. Welsh

What did the Romans bring to Britain?

1. Lots of words we still use nowadays
2. Roads
3. Cities
4. Civilization

Why do the Romans leave Britain in ca 410?

1. The weather was too cold
2. They had run out of women
3. The Roman Empire was crumbling
4. They were chased away by the Scots and Picts

The Germanic tribes invading Britain from 449AD onwards were made up of: Angles, Saxons, Frisians and ...

Why do we think the Anglo-Saxon tribes invaded Britain?

1. To take over farms left by the Romans
2. They were on the run from Charlemagne
3. They discovered it accidentally
4. They were on the run from the Vikings

What did the Germanic invaders call the Celts? Hint: the word means "foreigner"

Anglo-Saxons were heathens, converted to Christianity by Irish monks from the 7th C. Why was this important for the development of language and literature?

1. They learnt the christian alphabet
2. They started to write the bible in English
3. Monasteries became centres of learning
4. In Monasteries manuscripts in English were copied

Who made peace with the Vikings in 886 and established the Danelaw?

What is the Danelaw?

1. The part of Britain where Vikings had their own government and laws
2. The Viking system of law and justice
3. The laws against viking invasions established by Alfred
4. Vikings get the death penalty when they rob English villages

In 991 King Cnut becomes ruler of ...

1. Mercia and Wessex
2. Denmark and Frysland
3. England and Scotland
4. England and Denmark

What makes Anglo-Saxon/Old English so different from Present Day English?

1. It was written in pictograms
2. It was written only in runes
3. It had many inflections
4. it was a non-germanic language

Other languages influenced English to this day. Where do these words come from?

1. cucumber

1. Celtic
2. Roman Latin
3. Old Norse
4. Other

Other languages influenced English to this day. Where do these words come from?

2. they/them/their

1. Celtic
2. Roman Latin
3. Old Norse
4. Other

Other languages influenced English to this day. Where do these words come from?

3. purple

1. Celtic
2. Roman Latin
3. Old Norse
4. Other

Other languages influenced English to this day. Where do these words come from?

4. the suffix -s for third person singular

1. Celtic
2. Roman Latin
3. Old Norse
4. Other

What is the most famous and longest Old English poem called? (Hint: it is named after its protagonist)

What are features of OE poetry?

1. kenning / metaphors
2. alliteration
3. half-lines
4. rhyme