MCQ Chapter 4 Middle English Class 11 English Bihar Board 1. Middle English Periodat is the time period of Middle English?1066-11501150-15001400-16001500-1800Question 1 of 202. What event marks the end of Old English and the beginning of Middle English?Norman ConquestGreat Vowel ShiftPrinting Press IntroductionRenaissanceQuestion 2 of 203. Which major technological advancement helped standardize the English language?Steam EnginePrinting PressTelegraphInternetQuestion 3 of 204. Who set up the first printing press in England?Geoffrey ChaucerWilliam CaxtonJohn GowerJohn WyclifQuestion 4 of 205. Where was the first printing press in England established?OxfordLondonWestminster AbbeyCanterburyQuestion 5 of 206. What was the Great Vowel Shift?Change in English grammarChange in long vowel pronunciationInvention of the alphabetIntroduction of French vocabularyQuestion 6 of 207. During which years did the Great Vowel Shift primarily occur?1150-12151400-15001500-16001300-1350Question 7 of 208. Which dialect did Modern English primarily evolve from?NorthernSouthernEast MidlandWest MidlandQuestion 8 of 209. How many dialects of Middle English were there?FourFiveSixThreeQuestion 9 of 2010. Which Old English dialect remained unchanged during Middle English?NorthernSouthernEast MidlandKentishQuestion 10 of 2011. What percentage of French-derived words are still in use today?50%60%75%90%Question 11 of 2012. French words introduced into English were primarily related to:Science and artRoyalty and administrationAgriculture and naturePhilosophy and religionQuestion 12 of 2013. The reduction of English from a highly inflectional language to an analytic one was due to:Phonetic changes in word endingsBorrowing of Latin vocabularyIntroduction of new alphabetsSimplification of grammar rulesQuestion 13 of 2014. Middle English grammar relied on:Inflectional endingsFixed word orderComplex conjugationsCase markersQuestion 14 of 2015. What kind of vowels changed significantly during the Great Vowel Shift?Long vowelsShort vowelsConsonantsDiphthongsQuestion 15 of 2016. Many Latin words entered English through which language?SpanishFrenchGermanItalianQuestion 16 of 2017. Which word does NOT have Latin origins?GeniusSubstituteHomageTemperatureQuestion 17 of 2018. Which phonological feature remained almost the same from Middle to Modern English?Long vowelsShort vowelsConsonantsDiphthongsQuestion 18 of 2019. Middle English vocabulary saw significant influence from:German and DutchLatin and FrenchItalian and SpanishCeltic and NorseQuestion 19 of 2020. Approximately how many words were brought from French into English during the 13th and 14th centuries?20,0005,00010,00015,000Question 20 of 20 Loading...
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