Restablisment of English

The event that began the transition from Old English to Middle English was...

• The invasion of jerusalem

• The Norman Conquest of 1066

• The English Literature

• None previously

William the Conqueror (Duke of Normandy and, later, William I of England) invaded...

• The holy roman-germanic empire

• The Norman island

• The Tahuantinsuyo

• The island of Britain from his home base in northern France.

The conquering Normans were themselves descended from Vikings who had settled in northern France...

• about 200 years before

• about 200 years after

• about 300 years before

• about 400 years after

The Normans bequeathed...

• over 30,000 words to English (about two-quarters of which are still in use today)

• over 20,000 words to English (about three-quarters of which are still in use today)

• over 10,000 words to English (about three-quarters of which are still in use today)

• over 50,000 words to English (about fourt-quarters of which are still in use today)

It is estimated that up to 85% of Anglo-Saxon words were lost as a result of the Viking and particularly the Norman invasions.

• False, my queen

• true, my queen

The Black Death of 1349 - 1350 killed about a second of the English population

• Flase, my king

• True, my king

had the effect of branding French as the language of the enemy and the status of English rose as a consequence...

• English Literature

• The Black Death

• The Hundred Year War against France

• The bible translation

Who is this writer?

• William Shakespeare

• Geoffrey Chaucer

• John Wycliffe

• I dont know, my qeen

In the 858 lines of the Prologue to the .........................., almost 500 different French loanwards occur, and by some estimates, some 20-25% of Chaucer’s vocabulary is French in origin

...............produced his translation of “The Bible” in vernacular English.

• John Wycliffe

• Geoffrey Chaucer

• William Shakespeare

• Lord Tennyson