1. Test: Words: native and borrowed
Name:
Subject:
Date:
_____/36 points
I- True or false : Determine whether each of the statements below is true or false. (1 point each) ___/10
1) ____ The pronnounciation is the only aspect from language that changes through the time.
2) ____ Socrates and Hermogenes debated how and where the first word was originated.
3) ____ In English, the oldest data are the words we can find in written texts and carved monuments surviving
from the Old English.
4) ____ Long before the Germanic tribes attacked the native Britons, the Romans had invaded and colonized the
island.
5) ____ The Saxons conquered the island in two stages.
6) ____ It is entirely certain that the Jutes existed time ago.
7) ____ In Wessex flourished a culture that surpassed anytihing on the European Continent since the brightest
days of Rome.
8) ____ The conversion of England to Christianity began during the reign of Aethelberg.
9) ____ Christianity re- introduced Latin and instituted a new religion that encouraged new values.
10) ____ From the eight through the tenth centuries, Old English poetry flowered.

2. II- Matching: Match the items form column ¨A¨ with the items of column ¨B¨ . (2 points each) __/16
A
B
1) spanish
____ gothic
2) night
____ beowulf
3) East Germanic
____ Hellenic
4) Indo- European
____ Dutch
5) West Germanic
____ Balto – slavic
6) Old English poetry
____ nacht
7) Eastern branch
____ hypothetical common ancestor language
8) Western Branch
____ aluminio
____ snow
____ Celtic
III- Open questions: Answer the following question about the text Words: Native and borrowed
1) Why is the relationship between a word and its referent arbitrary? (3 points)
2) Explain the conversion fo England to Christianity. Mention important characters, dates and consequences of
this event. (7 points).