What is the study of poetry’s meter and form called ?

A. Prosody
B. Potology
C. Rheumatology
D. Scansion

The fine arts flourished in Elizabethan England. William Shakespeare, Christopher Marlowe, and Edmund Spenser were some of the more famous playwrights and poets of the time. Drama, music, songs, and art were popular with noblemen and commoners alike. Exploring certain topics, however, was considered taboo in any art form. What was a strictly forbidden subject ?

A. Sexuality
B. Criticism of the queen
C. Murder
D. Witchcraft

In what country did the Renaissance begin ?

A. Italy
B. France
C. England
D. Germany

Who introduced in linguistics the concept similar to Saussure’s Langue and Parole ?

A. Charles Sanders Pierce
B. Leonard bloom FileD.
C. Noam Chomsky
D. Edward Sapir

In which year did Chaucer fought in Hundred Years’ War between France and England ?

A. 1374
B. 1359
C. 1367
D. 1382

Altruist describes:

A. One who is lover of beauty.
B. One who never stops.
C. A lover of mankind.
D. A person who hates mankind

A term which refers to the sequential characteristics of language. When we construct WORDS and SENTENCES we follow a certain order in arranging the individual items.

A. Syntagmatic
B. Synergy
C. Performance
D. N. O. T

Novel Animal Farm was written by___________?

A. Shakespeare
B. William Hudson
C. George Orwell
D. None of these

A pair of terms introduced by Noam CHOMSKY in 1965 to describe native speakers’ intuitions about the grammatical correctness, or otherwise, of sentences.

A. Both b and c
B. Diachrony/Synchrony
C. Acceptable/Unacceptable
D. N. O. T

The system of communication within a community.

A. Langue
B. Parole
C. Paradigmatic
D. N. O. T