In Graham Green’s “The Quiet American” one of the main characters, Alden Pyle, is
СПЕЦФИЛОЛОГИЯ
Which language belongs to the East Germanic group?
а) Gothic;
Which language belongs to the West Germanic group?
a) English;
The social system that the Old Germans had was
a) primitive communal system;
Dominating religion of Old Germans was
b) paganism.
The Gothic language belongs to
a) the East Germanic group;
6. Answer the question: Which principles are applied while using comparative-historic method?
b) genetic unity of the compared units;
Phrasal stress in the Indo-European language was
a) tonic
8. The First Consonant Shift concerns the Indo-European
d) plosives.
9. The Second Consonant Shift concerns
a) the Old Germanic consonants p, t, k;
Mutation is
a) phonetically conditioned;
Gradation is
b) independent of phonetic surrounding.
The words of the Indo-European origin have
a) primarily concrete lexical meaning;
The oldest written records in the Old Germanic languages are
b) Runic;
The shapes of the runes were
b) changeable.
K. Verner’s Law explains
c) exceptions from Grimm’s Law;
The Germanic tribes’ migration began in
b) 2 century AD;
Gradation in the Germanic languages was used as
b) a way of word formation.
The comparative historic method is based on
a) typological comparison;
Languages which belong to the national varieties of English are
a) American English;
Received Pronunciation is the pronunciation standard in
b) Great Britain;
ИСТОРИЯ АНГЛИЙСКОГО ЯЗЫКА
When did Romans conquer Britain?
a) 43 AD.
Who were the first people in Britain about whose language we have definite knowledge?
a) Celts;
3. Answer the question: At approximately what date did the invasion of Britain by the Germanic tribes begin?
a) V c.;
4. Answer the question: Which branch of Germanic languages does English belong to?
b) Western;
The name “English” comes from
c) Angles.
According to its grammatical structure Old English is
c) a synthetic language.
7. Answer the question: What old dialect is taken as classical Old English?
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b) West Saxon;
Beowulf is
c) the main character of the epic.
The author of Ecclesiastical History of the English People is
c) Bede, the Venerable.
The borderline between Old English and Middle English was
b) the battle of Hastings;
11. Answer the question: What period did H. Sweet call the period of full endings?
b) Old English;
The part of speech which had dual number in Old English is
c) pronoun.
13. Answer the question: What was peculiar to strong declensions of adjectives?
c) mixed.
The number of cases in nouns and personal pronouns was
a) 4;
The stems, which defined strong declension of nouns, were
a) vowels;
The Germanic tribes’ migration began in
b) 2 century AD;.
Gradation in the Germanic languages was used as
b) a way of word formation.
18. The language from which English acquired the pronouns they, their, them is
a) Scandinavian;
The decisive battle between the Normans and the English was
b) at Hastings;
The dialect of Middle English which became the basis for Standard English is
b) London;
ЛИТЕРАТУРА
One of the most famous Imagist poems: “The apparition of those faces in the crowd; / Petals on a wet, black bough” is written by
b) Ezra Pound;
2. Animal Farm is an allegorical novel by George Orwell that reflects events
a) leading up to the Russian Revolution of 1917 and then on into Stalin era;
William Butler Yeats’ works are centered on
b) Irish mythology and folklore;
4. In A Farewell to Arms the name of the main character is
a) Frederic Henry;
To both Eliot and Pound, _______is necessary for the poet to create “new” poetry.
a)knowledge of tradition/the past
6. Stream-of-consciousness narrative style in which the flowing thoughts and perceptions of protagonists are depicted as they would occur in real life, unfiltered, flitting from one thing to another, and often rather unpredictable is not employed in
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b) Sons and Lovers by D.H. Lawrence;
7. John Galsworthy’s The Forsyte Saga is a _ realistic_____ novel.
b) realistic;
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8. In Ulysses, J. Joyce draws many parallels between his characters and Homer’s
c) Odyssey and Telemachus.
The main themes of Robert Frost’s poetry are
c) nature, everyday life of common people in the country.
The novels _____ are set on one day in the character’s life.
b) Mrs. Dalloway by V. Woolf; Ulysses by J. Joyce;
11. Animal Farm is written by George Orwell in the genre of
b) anti-utopia;
12. In “The French Lieutenant's Woman” John Fowles offers multiple endings. Choose the correct number of endings:
b) three (Victorian, sentimental and existentialist);
In Graham Green’s “The Quiet American” one of the main characters, Alden Pyle, is
b) CIA agent working under cover;
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