Avid History of English

From 1800 to the present day, the version of English spoken is --.

• Late Modern
• Early Modern 
• bad
• Old 

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The English language has adopted many --- from many countries.

• plays
• children
• accents
• words

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--- controlled the island of Great Britain between AD 43 and AD 410.

• England 
• Rome
• Germany
• the U.S.

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The Roman army left Britain in AD 407 to help defend --

• Great Britain
• Shakespeare
• the army
• Rome

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The Germanic tribes, the ---, the Saxons, and the Jutes invaded Great Britain.

• Angles
• Triangles
• Americans
• Apache

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Before the Germanic tribe invasions, the inhabitants of Britain spoke a --- language.

• modern

• Celtic

• Bostonian

• terrible

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"England" and "English" come from the name of the tribe of ---

• the Cherokee
• the Angles
• the Saxons
• the Jutes

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The version of English that was spoken between 450 and 1100 AD was --

• modern English

• Old English

• futuristic English

• Late Modern English

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TRUE OR FALSE: Old English sounded and looked like today's English.

• True
• False

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The most famous work of literature in Old English is --

• Romeo & Juliet
• the Bible
• The Canterbury Tales
• Beowulf

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