Which one is not a book written by Melville?

The narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket

Is future tense inflected in English?

No, unlike in Spanish and Valencian.

Complex transitive verbs are accompanied by...

A direct object and a complement

Adverbs can modify...

A verb, an adjective and/or an adverb

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1
"Dominus illuminatio mea" is the motto of...
None
Cambridge
Harvard
Oxford
2
What movie is not inspired by a Stephen King book?
Carrie
Sphere
The green mile
The shining
3
Clipping is a type of...
Blending
Narrowing
Shortening
Back-formation
4
What type of adverb is "completely"?
Emphasizer
Maximizer
Booster
Downtoner
5
Not taking into account later additions, how many functions did Roman Jakobson label?
5
3
4
6
6
Who wrote "The jungle book"?
Joseph Conrad
Rudyard Kipling
William Thackeray
Anthony Trollope
7
Which one is not a book written by Melville?
Moby Dick
The narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket
The white jacket
Billy Budd
8
What territory is not represented in the Union Jack?
England
Scotland
Northern Ireland
Wales
9
Which one is not an example of zero plural?
fish
sheep
children
species
10
What was Halliday´s nationality?
Australian
Canadian
British
American
11
Who wrote "Saved"?
Nigel Williams
John Osborne
Barrie Keeffe
Edward Bond
12
What meeting included Yeltsin?
Start I
Start II
Salt I
Salt II
13
Which book was not written by D. H. Lawrence?
Sons and lovers
Lady Chatterley´s lover
To the lighthouse
The white peacock
14
What type of narrator represents Benjy from "The sound and the fury"?
Unreliable
Combined
Focused
Impossible
15
The shamrock represents...
England
Scotland
Wales
Ireland
16
Which one is not an example of specific argumentative text?
Letter to newspaper
Diary
Political speech
Advertisement
17
How many amendments does the US constitution include?
28
27
30
29
18
Is future tense inflected in English?
No, unlike in Valencian.
Yes, it is.
No, unlike in Spanish.
No, unlike in Spanish and Valencian.
19
What book was not written by Joice?
The shadow of a gunman
Dubliners
Finnegans Wake
Ulysses
20
What was created by Crompton?
Flying shuttle
Water frame
Mule
Spinning jenny
21
The university of Oxford dates back from...
1096
1098
1097
1095
22
Who wrote "Vanity Fair"?
William Thackeray
Rudyard Kipling
Joseph Conrad
Anthony Trollope
23
How many word formation types are there in English?
7
8
10
9
24
What is the nationality of John Searle?
Australian
American
Canadian
British
25
What president suffered a stroke?
Ulysses Grant
McKinley
Grover Cleveland
Woodrow Wilson
26
Which one is not a book written by Bernard Shaw?
Mrs. Warren´s profession
Pygmalion
Man and superman
Salome
27
Who wrote "A passage to India"?
Nadine Gordimer
E. M. Forster
None of the others
Doris Lessing
28
Who wrote "Class enemy"?
Edward Bond
John Osborne
Barrie Keeffe
Nigel Williams
29
Where was Faulkner born?
Mississippi
Oak Park
California
St. Paul
30
Which one is not a communicative problems solving strategy?
Retrieval
Achievement
Reduction
Overgeneralization
31
Which one is not a book written by Bernard Shaw?
Androcles and the lion
The Canterville ghost
Caesar and Cleopatra
Dark lady of the sonnets
32
Who wrote "The treasure island"?
None of the others
Emily Brontë
Charlotte Brontë
Anne Brontë
33
What president was assassinated?
McKinley
Ulysses Grant
Grover Cleveland
Woodrow Wilson
34
Gawain was King Arthur´s...
Cousin
Son
Nephew
Brother
35
Thatcher´s educational reform act dates back from...
1985
1988
1987
1986
36
Who wrote "Look back in anger"?
Edward Bond
Nigel Williams
Barrie Keeffe
John Osborne
37
Complex transitive verbs are accompanied by...
An object or a complement
A direct object and a complement
An indirect object and a complement
A direct object, an indirect objective and a complement
38
Where was Fitzgerald born?
Mississippi
Oak Park
California
St. Paul
39
Which one is not a book written by Faulkner?
Soldier´s pay
As I lay dying
The sound and the fury
The pearl
40
Analepsis and prolepsis refer to...
Characters
Resolution
Space
Time
41
Who wrote "Jane Eyre"?
None of the others
Emily Brontë
Anne Brontë
Charlotte Brontë
42
Who wrote "Heart of darkness"?
William Thackeray
Joseph Conrad
Rudyard Kipling
Anthony Trollope
43
Which one is not a book written by Oscar Wilde?
The moonstone
The picture of Dorian Gray
The ballad of the Reading gaol
De profundis
44
Who wrote "The catcher in the rye"?
J. D. Salinger
Vladimir Nabokov
Joseph Heller
Arthur Miller
45
Adverbs can modify...
An adverb
A verb
A verb, an adjective and/or an adverb
An adjective
46
Who wrote "The castle of Otranto"?
Henry Fielding
Mary Shelley
Horace Walpole
None of them
47
Who wrote "Lord of the flies"?
Anthony Burgess
William Golding
Samuel Beckett
Tom Stoppard
48
Which one is not an avoidance type communication strategy?
Appeal to authority
Literal translation from L1
Paraphrasing
Code-switch
49
Who wrote "Death of a salesman"?
Arthur Miller
J. D. Salinger
Vladimir Nabokov
Joseph Heller
50
Who wrote "Robinson Crusoe"?
Henry Fielding
Samuel Richardson
Jonathan Swift
Daniel Defoe
51
Who wrote "Catch 22"?
Arthur Miller
J. D. Salinger
Joseph Heller
Vladimir Nabokov
52
Which one is not a type of interrogation?
Rhetorical question
Exclamatory question
Declarative question
Assertive question
53
What do back-channel signals refer to?
Turn-taking
A secondary topic
Provide feedback
Interrupt conversations
54
What play from Shakespeare got burnt in The Globe´s fire?
The merchant of Venice
The tempest
Cardenio
The white lady
55
When we are mixing senses in a peculiar way, we are using...
Personification
Vividness
Synaesthesia
Prosopography
56
Who wrote "Ode to a nightingale"?
Coleridge
William Blake
Wordsworth
John Keats
57
When is St. Patrick´s day celebrated?
March 15th
March 18th
March 17th
March 16th
58
What was created by John Kay?
Flying shuttle
Spinning jenny
Water frame
Mule
59
How many plosive consonantic phonemes are there in English?
5
4
6
3
60
Which one is not a book written by Oscar Wilde?
Candida
Lady Windermere´s fan
A woman of no importance
The importance of being Earnest
61
Which one is an example of correlative conjunction?
As much as
Either...or
Although
Even if
62
Wisdom lamp and bravery sword are symbols of...
ASTP
ASPT
ATSP
ATPS
63
Jeff Bezos is the owner of...
The Wall Street Journal
New York Daily News
The Washington Post
New York Post
64
What was Shakespeare´s last play?
Cardenio
The merchant of Venice
All´s well that ends well
The tempest
65
Who wrote "Shamela Andrews"?
Samuel Richardson
Jonathan Swift
Daniel Defoe
Henry Fielding
66
Who wrote "Songs of innocence and experience"?
Wordsworth
John Keats
William Blake
Coleridge
67
Harold was King Edward the confessor´s...
Brother-in-law
Cousin
Nephew
Brother
68
Who is Neuro-Linguistic programming linked to?
Richards
Odgen
Grinder
Joly
69
When is Thanksgiving celebrated?
Third thursday in November
First thursday in November
Fourth thursday in November
Second thursday in November
70
Who didn´t belong to the republican party?
F. D. Roosevelt
Trump
Reagan
Bush Jr.
71
Prepositional verbs can be...
Transitive or intransitive
Transitive or ditransitive
Transitive, intransitive or ditransitive
Transitive
72
What type of verbs cannot be turned into passive?
Transitive verbs
Intransitive verbs
Ditransitive verbs
Neither transitive nor intransitive verbs
73
Which one is not a book written by Dickens?
Bartleby the scrivener
David Copperfield
Great Expectations
The old curiosity shop
74
What is the structure of an envelope quatrain?
abab
abba
abaa
aabb
75
Which one is not an example of semi-modal auxiliary?
Must
Need
Used to
Dare
76
Who has been accused of sexual harassment?
M. Halliday
J. Searle
J. L. Austin
H. P. Grice
77
Where was Geoffrey Leech from?
Australia
USA
Britain
Canada
78
What type of adverb is "either"?
Focusing
Completeness
Certainty
Comment
79
Which one is not an example of contrast conjuncts?
Anyway
Nevertheless
Moreover
However
80
When is Bloomsday celebrated?
July 16th
June 16th
July 15th
June 15th
81
Where was Steinbeck born?
Mississippi
St. Paul
Oak Park
California
82
Which one is not a book written by Henry James?
The wings of dove
The portrait of a lady
The prince and the pauper
A passionate pilgrim
83
Who wrote "A clockwork orange"?
Samuel Beckett
Anthony Burgess
Tom Stoppard
William Golding
84
Who is deconstructionism related to?
Jacques Derrida
T. S. Eliot
Nobody
Roman Jakobson
85
Which one is not a poem written by Whitman?
Lyrical ballads
Song of myself
Children of Adam
Oh captain, my captain
86
What president suffered a throat cancer?
Grover Cleveland
Woodrow Wilson
Ulysses Grant
McKinley
87
"Have" and "do" can work as...
Primary auxiliary verbs
Neither primary auxiliary nor lexical verbs
Either primary auxiliary or lexical verbs
Lexical verbs
88
Who wrote "To the cuckoo"?
John Keats
Wordsworth
William Blake
Coleridge
89
Phrasal verbs can be...
Transitive or ditransitive
Transitive or intransitive
Transitive, intransitive or ditransitive
Transitive
90
How many speech act categories are there?
4
5
3
2
91
In English, the use of passive in scientific research articles is as high as...
60%
70%
50%
80%
92
Who wrote "Rob Roy"?
Horace Walpole
Henry Fielding
None of them
Mary Shelley
93
Where was Michael Crichton born?
NYC
Houston
Los Angeles
Chicago
94
Which one is not a tabloid?
New York Post
The Sunday Times
The Sun
Daily Mirror
95
Which one is not a context element?
Tenor
Field
Mood
Mode
96
The thistle represents...
Wales
Ireland
Scotland
England
97
In what state is Mount Rushmore?
South Dakota
South Carolina
North Dakota
North Carolina
98
Who wrote "The good terrorist"?
E. M. Forster
Nadine Gordimer
None of the others
Doris Lessing
99
Which one is not the name of one of Shakespeare´s children?
Hamnet
Judith
Susanna
Ruth
100
The university of Cambridge dates back from...
1207
1209
1206
1208
101
Who wrote "Frankenstein"?
Mary Shelley
Horace Walpole
None of them
Henry Fielding
102
Who wrote "Pale fire"?
Vladimir Nabokov
Arthur Miller
Joseph Heller
J. D. Salinger
103
Which one is not a type of subject?
Agent
Mood
Locative
Instrument
104
Which one is not an example of causative verb?
Result in
Make
Generate
Cause
105
Which one is not a poem written by Poe?
The bells
To Helen
Kubla Khan
The raven
106
Which one is not a time indicator use type?
Convenience
Frequency
Duration
Position
107
Traditional grammar is...
Pedagogical
Descriptive
Prescriptive
Predictive
108
Which one is not a book written by Hemingway?
For whom the bells toll
Cup of gold
A farewell to arms
Green hills of Africa
109
What´s the origin of this word used in Medical English?
Latin
Old English
French
Other
110
Who didn´t belong to the democratic party?
Obama
Nixon
Kennedy
Clinton
111
How many intonation tunes are there in English?
5
3
2
4
112
The genitive case is mainly used when the owner is...
An object
A person
Both a person and an object
Either a person or an object
113
How many inches are in a foot?
10
15
12
6
114
Which one is not a broadsheet?
Daily Telegraph
Washington Post
Daily Mail
Wall Street Journal
115
"Groundhog day" is an example of...
Recurrent theme
Round theme
Topic extension
Lineal theme
116
The US constitution dates back from...
1787
1786
1788
1789
117
What´s the standard chime of NBC?
CEG
GEC
CEGG
GECG
118
When did the Berlin wall fall?
1979
1978
1988
1989
119
What´s Chomsky´s nationality?
Ukrainian
American
Israeli
British
120
Which one is a bare infinitive?
Refuse
Make
Manage
Offer
121
Which one is a Berliner?
The Sunday Telegraph
The Guardian
Financial Times
The New York Times
122
Who wrote "Half moon street"?
Elizabeth George
Agatha Christie
P. D. James
Anne Perry
123
Which one is not a book written by Steinbeck?
East of Eden
The sun also rises
Cannery row
Torilla flat
124
Which one is not an example of American TV?
ITV
PBS
NBC
ABC
125
The rose represents...
England
Wales
Scotland
Ireland
126
Object pronouns replace possessive adjectives in...
RP
Cockney
Brummy
Scouse
127
What was created by Arkwright?
Mule
Water frame
Spinning jenny
Flying shuttle
128
When was Queen Elizabeth II born?
1929
1928
1926
1927
129
Who is the Reform Movement linked to?
Fountas
Viëtor
Montaigne
Berlitz
130
Who wrote "Agnes Grey"?
Anne Brontë
Charlotte Brontë
None of the others
Emily Brontë
131
Who wrote "The rime of the ancient mariner"?
Wordsworth
Coleridge
William Blake
John Keats
132
Instructive texts make heavy use of...
Locutionary force
Both locutionary and illocutionary forces
Illocutionary force
Perlocutionary force
133
What does isochrony refer to?
Secondary stress
Primary stress
Word stress
Sentence stress
134
How many semi-vowels are there in English?
0
1
2
3
135
Which one is a compact?
The Independent
Financial Times
The Echo
The Times
136
Which one is not a book written by Poe?
Bartleby the scrivener
The pit and the pendulum
The black cat
The tell-tale heart
137
Regular plurals are pronounced /iz/ after...
Voiced non sibilant sounds
Voiceless non sibilant sounds
Sibilant sounds
Both sibilant and non sibilant sounds
138
How many sonnets are in Shakespeare´s "The sonnets"?
154
156
152
160
139
What phoneme is not fricative?
/θ/
/k/
/ʃ/
/ð/
140
When does the American president take oath?
February 19th
January 20th
February 20th
January 19th
141
William the conqueror was King Edward the confessor´s...
Son
Cousin
Nephew
Brother
142
Who is not known because mastering the "stream of consciousness" technique?
Henry James
James Joyce
Virginia Woolf
Walt Whitman
143
What was H. P. Grice´s nationality?
Australian
German
British
American
144
Who wrote "Gimme Shelter"?
Nigel Williams
Edward Bond
John Osborne
Barrie Keeffe
145
What are the names of Canale & Swain?
Michael & Anne
Michael & Merril
Michael & Eve
Michael & Elizabeth
146
Contrastive analysis is linked to...
Cognitivism
Behaviourism
Both Cognitivism and Behaviourism
Neither Cognitivism nor Behaviourism
147
How many vocalic phonemes are there in English?
10
5
12
11
148
When did Elizabeth II become queen?
1952
1951
1953
1950
149
Which one is not an English for Science and Technology description type?
Process
Functional
Physical
Compositional
150
Who wrote "Chronicles of Barsetshire"?
Joseph Conrad
William Thackeray
Rudyard Kipling
Anthony Trollope
151
Who wrote "Depiction on his mind"?
Elizabeth George
P. D. James
Agatha Christie
Anne Perry
152
Where was Goffman from?
Canada
Germany
USA
Britain
153
Which one is not a book written by Fitzgerald?
The great Gatsby
This side of paradise
The last tycoon
Sea of Cortez
154
"Veritas" is the motto of...
None
Oxford
Harvard
Cambridge
155
Where was Ferdinand de Saussaure born?
UK
Switzerland
USA
Germany
156
When was the Easter Rising?
1962
1916
1961
1926
157
What president suffered a palate cancer?
McKinley
Ulysses Grant
Woodrow Wilson
Grover Cleveland
158
Who wrote "Pamela"?
Jonathan Swift
Daniel Defoe
Henry Fielding
Samuel Richardson
159
How many textuality standards are there?
8
7
9
6
160
What is Paul Revere related to?
Midnight ride
Black Heritage trail
Emancipation proclamation
Gettysburg address
161
Which one is a bare infinitive?
Prepare
Let
Agree
Afford
162
Is conditional tense inflected in English?
No, unlike in Spanish.
No, unlike in Spanish and Valencian.
No, unlike in Valencian.
Yes, it is.
163
Who wrote "The conservationist"?
Nadine Gordimer
Doris Lessing
None of the others
E. M. Forster
164
Which one is not a book written by Mark Twain?
Life on the Mississippi
The miller´s tale
Roughing it
Tom Sawyer
165
Which one is not an example of Old English Pagan poetry?
The wife´s lament
The wanderer
Beowulf
The dream of the rood
166
According to backshift, past perfect turns into...
Past perfect
Past perfect continuous
Present perfect
Past simple
167
When was the Boston massacre?
March 5th
March 6th
May 5th
May 6th
168
How many Gricean maxims are there?
6
4
5
7
169
Where was Virginia Woolf born?
In Manchester
In London
In Birmingham
In Liverpool
170
Which one is not a bare anglicism?
Túnel
Club
Slogan
Golf
171
Prepositions can work as...
object
either subject or object
neither subject nor object
subject
172
Who wrote "Wuthering heights"?
None of the others
Emily Brontë
Charlotte Brontë
Anne Brontë
173
Who wrote "Waiting for Godot"?
William Golding
Tom Stoppard
Anthony Burgess
Samuel Beckett
174
What is not expressed using "in"?
Holiday seasons
Years
Seasons
Months
175
Instructive text is a subtype of...
Expository texts
Argumentative texts
Narrative texts
Descriptive texts
176
The daffodil represents...
England
Scotland
Wales
Ireland
177
What was created by Hargreaves?
Water frame
Flying shuttle
Spinning jenny
Mule
178
What accent is linked to London?
Brummie
Cockney
Mancky
Scouse
179
When is Halloween celebrated?
October 21st
October 26th
October 31st
October 28th
180
What country was Bloomfield born in?
Wales
USA
Scotland
England
181
"Before" is an adverb of...
Both time and space
Time
Neither time nor space
Space
182
What connector does not express concession?
Finally
However
Nonetheless
Although
183
What was Goffman´s name?
Irving
Edwin
Ervin
John
184
What play was not written by O´Casey?
The plough and the sky
Red roses for me
The star turns red
Juno and the paycock
185
What type of downtoner is "partly"?
Approximates
Compromisers
Minimishers
Diminishers
186
When is Guy Fawkes celebrated?
Novermber 1st
November 10th
November 6th
November 5th
187
Which one is not a cohesive element?
Ellipsis
Reference
Coherence
Substitution
188
What type of antonyms are "buy" and "sell"?
Strict
Loose
Complementary
Converse
189
What movie is not inspired by a Michael Crichton book?
The Shawshank redemption
Timeline
Congo
Jurassic park
190
Which one is not a type of negation?
Predication negation
Clause negation
Doubtful negation
Local negation
191
Which one is not a type of film adaptation?
Reinterpretation
Transfer
Inventive
Free adaptation
192
When did the man step on the moon?
1975
1969
1979
1965
193
How many language features did Charles Hockett study?
13
12
11
10
194
Where was Hemingway born?
California
Mississippi
Oak Park
St. Paul
195
Where is Abraham Lincoln buried?
NYC
Chicago
Washington
Springfield
196
When was the latest Scottish referendum held?
2011
2014
2012
2013
197
Who is Cognitivism linked to?
Pinnell
Krashen
Corder
Selinker
198
Who wrote "Rosencrantz and Guilderstern are dead"?
Anthony Burgess
Tom Stoppard
William Golding
Samuel Beckett
199
Which one refers to something outside the text?
Exophoric
Endophoric
Cataphoric
Anaphoric
200
Who wrote "Gulliver´s travels"?
Jonathan Swift
Samuel Richardson
Henry Fielding
Daniel Defoe

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Questions 200

Answers

1
"Dominus illuminatio mea" is the motto of...
None
Cambridge
Harvard
Oxford
2
What movie is not inspired by a Stephen King book?
Carrie
Sphere
The green mile
The shining
3
Clipping is a type of...
Blending
Narrowing
Shortening
Back-formation
4
What type of adverb is "completely"?
Emphasizer
Maximizer
Booster
Downtoner
5
Not taking into account later additions, how many functions did Roman Jakobson label?
5
3
4
6
6
Who wrote "The jungle book"?
Joseph Conrad
Rudyard Kipling
William Thackeray
Anthony Trollope
7
Which one is not a book written by Melville?
Moby Dick
The narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket
The white jacket
Billy Budd
8
What territory is not represented in the Union Jack?
England
Scotland
Northern Ireland
Wales
9
Which one is not an example of zero plural?
fish
sheep
children
species
10
What was Halliday´s nationality?
Australian
Canadian
British
American
11
Who wrote "Saved"?
Nigel Williams
John Osborne
Barrie Keeffe
Edward Bond
12
What meeting included Yeltsin?
Start I
Start II
Salt I
Salt II
13
Which book was not written by D. H. Lawrence?
Sons and lovers
Lady Chatterley´s lover
To the lighthouse
The white peacock
14
What type of narrator represents Benjy from "The sound and the fury"?
Unreliable
Combined
Focused
Impossible
15
The shamrock represents...
England
Scotland
Wales
Ireland
16
Which one is not an example of specific argumentative text?
Letter to newspaper
Diary
Political speech
Advertisement
17
How many amendments does the US constitution include?
28
27
30
29
18
Is future tense inflected in English?
No, unlike in Valencian.
Yes, it is.
No, unlike in Spanish.
No, unlike in Spanish and Valencian.
19
What book was not written by Joice?
The shadow of a gunman
Dubliners
Finnegans Wake
Ulysses
20
What was created by Crompton?
Flying shuttle
Water frame
Mule
Spinning jenny
21
The university of Oxford dates back from...
1096
1098
1097
1095
22
Who wrote "Vanity Fair"?
William Thackeray
Rudyard Kipling
Joseph Conrad
Anthony Trollope
23
How many word formation types are there in English?
7
8
10
9
24
What is the nationality of John Searle?
Australian
American
Canadian
British
25
What president suffered a stroke?
Ulysses Grant
McKinley
Grover Cleveland
Woodrow Wilson
26
Which one is not a book written by Bernard Shaw?
Mrs. Warren´s profession
Pygmalion
Man and superman
Salome
27
Who wrote "A passage to India"?
Nadine Gordimer
E. M. Forster
None of the others
Doris Lessing
28
Who wrote "Class enemy"?
Edward Bond
John Osborne
Barrie Keeffe
Nigel Williams
29
Where was Faulkner born?
Mississippi
Oak Park
California
St. Paul
30
Which one is not a communicative problems solving strategy?
Retrieval
Achievement
Reduction
Overgeneralization
31
Which one is not a book written by Bernard Shaw?
Androcles and the lion
The Canterville ghost
Caesar and Cleopatra
Dark lady of the sonnets
32
Who wrote "The treasure island"?
None of the others
Emily Brontë
Charlotte Brontë
Anne Brontë
33
What president was assassinated?
McKinley
Ulysses Grant
Grover Cleveland
Woodrow Wilson
34
Gawain was King Arthur´s...
Cousin
Son
Nephew
Brother
35
Thatcher´s educational reform act dates back from...
1985
1988
1987
1986
36
Who wrote "Look back in anger"?
Edward Bond
Nigel Williams
Barrie Keeffe
John Osborne
37
Complex transitive verbs are accompanied by...
An object or a complement
A direct object and a complement
An indirect object and a complement
A direct object, an indirect objective and a complement
38
Where was Fitzgerald born?
Mississippi
Oak Park
California
St. Paul
39
Which one is not a book written by Faulkner?
Soldier´s pay
As I lay dying
The sound and the fury
The pearl
40
Analepsis and prolepsis refer to...
Characters
Resolution
Space
Time
41
Who wrote "Jane Eyre"?
None of the others
Emily Brontë
Anne Brontë
Charlotte Brontë
42
Who wrote "Heart of darkness"?
William Thackeray
Joseph Conrad
Rudyard Kipling
Anthony Trollope
43
Which one is not a book written by Oscar Wilde?
The moonstone
The picture of Dorian Gray
The ballad of the Reading gaol
De profundis
44
Who wrote "The catcher in the rye"?
J. D. Salinger
Vladimir Nabokov
Joseph Heller
Arthur Miller
45
Adverbs can modify...
An adverb
A verb
A verb, an adjective and/or an adverb
An adjective
46
Who wrote "The castle of Otranto"?
Henry Fielding
Mary Shelley
Horace Walpole
None of them
47
Who wrote "Lord of the flies"?
Anthony Burgess
William Golding
Samuel Beckett
Tom Stoppard
48
Which one is not an avoidance type communication strategy?
Appeal to authority
Literal translation from L1
Paraphrasing
Code-switch
49
Who wrote "Death of a salesman"?
Arthur Miller
J. D. Salinger
Vladimir Nabokov
Joseph Heller
50
Who wrote "Robinson Crusoe"?
Henry Fielding
Samuel Richardson
Jonathan Swift
Daniel Defoe
51
Who wrote "Catch 22"?
Arthur Miller
J. D. Salinger
Joseph Heller
Vladimir Nabokov
52
Which one is not a type of interrogation?
Rhetorical question
Exclamatory question
Declarative question
Assertive question
53
What do back-channel signals refer to?
Turn-taking
A secondary topic
Provide feedback
Interrupt conversations
54
What play from Shakespeare got burnt in The Globe´s fire?
The merchant of Venice
The tempest
Cardenio
The white lady
55
When we are mixing senses in a peculiar way, we are using...
Personification
Vividness
Synaesthesia
Prosopography
56
Who wrote "Ode to a nightingale"?
Coleridge
William Blake
Wordsworth
John Keats
57
When is St. Patrick´s day celebrated?
March 15th
March 18th
March 17th
March 16th
58
What was created by John Kay?
Flying shuttle
Spinning jenny
Water frame
Mule
59
How many plosive consonantic phonemes are there in English?
5
4
6
3
60
Which one is not a book written by Oscar Wilde?
Candida
Lady Windermere´s fan
A woman of no importance
The importance of being Earnest
61
Which one is an example of correlative conjunction?
As much as
Either...or
Although
Even if
62
Wisdom lamp and bravery sword are symbols of...
ASTP
ASPT
ATSP
ATPS
63
Jeff Bezos is the owner of...
The Wall Street Journal
New York Daily News
The Washington Post
New York Post
64
What was Shakespeare´s last play?
Cardenio
The merchant of Venice
All´s well that ends well
The tempest
65
Who wrote "Shamela Andrews"?
Samuel Richardson
Jonathan Swift
Daniel Defoe
Henry Fielding
66
Who wrote "Songs of innocence and experience"?
Wordsworth
John Keats
William Blake
Coleridge
67
Harold was King Edward the confessor´s...
Brother-in-law
Cousin
Nephew
Brother
68
Who is Neuro-Linguistic programming linked to?
Richards
Odgen
Grinder
Joly
69
When is Thanksgiving celebrated?
Third thursday in November
First thursday in November
Fourth thursday in November
Second thursday in November
70
Who didn´t belong to the republican party?
F. D. Roosevelt
Trump
Reagan
Bush Jr.
71
Prepositional verbs can be...
Transitive or intransitive
Transitive or ditransitive
Transitive, intransitive or ditransitive
Transitive
72
What type of verbs cannot be turned into passive?
Transitive verbs
Intransitive verbs
Ditransitive verbs
Neither transitive nor intransitive verbs
73
Which one is not a book written by Dickens?
Bartleby the scrivener
David Copperfield
Great Expectations
The old curiosity shop
74
What is the structure of an envelope quatrain?
abab
abba
abaa
aabb
75
Which one is not an example of semi-modal auxiliary?
Must
Need
Used to
Dare
76
Who has been accused of sexual harassment?
M. Halliday
J. Searle
J. L. Austin
H. P. Grice
77
Where was Geoffrey Leech from?
Australia
USA
Britain
Canada
78
What type of adverb is "either"?
Focusing
Completeness
Certainty
Comment
79
Which one is not an example of contrast conjuncts?
Anyway
Nevertheless
Moreover
However
80
When is Bloomsday celebrated?
July 16th
June 16th
July 15th
June 15th
81
Where was Steinbeck born?
Mississippi
St. Paul
Oak Park
California
82
Which one is not a book written by Henry James?
The wings of dove
The portrait of a lady
The prince and the pauper
A passionate pilgrim
83
Who wrote "A clockwork orange"?
Samuel Beckett
Anthony Burgess
Tom Stoppard
William Golding
84
Who is deconstructionism related to?
Jacques Derrida
T. S. Eliot
Nobody
Roman Jakobson
85
Which one is not a poem written by Whitman?
Lyrical ballads
Song of myself
Children of Adam
Oh captain, my captain
86
What president suffered a throat cancer?
Grover Cleveland
Woodrow Wilson
Ulysses Grant
McKinley
87
"Have" and "do" can work as...
Primary auxiliary verbs
Neither primary auxiliary nor lexical verbs
Either primary auxiliary or lexical verbs
Lexical verbs
88
Who wrote "To the cuckoo"?
John Keats
Wordsworth
William Blake
Coleridge
89
Phrasal verbs can be...
Transitive or ditransitive
Transitive or intransitive
Transitive, intransitive or ditransitive
Transitive
90
How many speech act categories are there?
4
5
3
2
91
In English, the use of passive in scientific research articles is as high as...
60%
70%
50%
80%
92
Who wrote "Rob Roy"?
Horace Walpole
Henry Fielding
None of them
Mary Shelley
93
Where was Michael Crichton born?
NYC
Houston
Los Angeles
Chicago
94
Which one is not a tabloid?
New York Post
The Sunday Times
The Sun
Daily Mirror
95
Which one is not a context element?
Tenor
Field
Mood
Mode
96
The thistle represents...
Wales
Ireland
Scotland
England
97
In what state is Mount Rushmore?
South Dakota
South Carolina
North Dakota
North Carolina
98
Who wrote "The good terrorist"?
E. M. Forster
Nadine Gordimer
None of the others
Doris Lessing
99
Which one is not the name of one of Shakespeare´s children?
Hamnet
Judith
Susanna
Ruth
100
The university of Cambridge dates back from...
1207
1209
1206
1208
101
Who wrote "Frankenstein"?
Mary Shelley
Horace Walpole
None of them
Henry Fielding
102
Who wrote "Pale fire"?
Vladimir Nabokov
Arthur Miller
Joseph Heller
J. D. Salinger
103
Which one is not a type of subject?
Agent
Mood
Locative
Instrument
104
Which one is not an example of causative verb?
Result in
Make
Generate
Cause
105
Which one is not a poem written by Poe?
The bells
To Helen
Kubla Khan
The raven
106
Which one is not a time indicator use type?
Convenience
Frequency
Duration
Position
107
Traditional grammar is...
Pedagogical
Descriptive
Prescriptive
Predictive
108
Which one is not a book written by Hemingway?
For whom the bells toll
Cup of gold
A farewell to arms
Green hills of Africa
109
What´s the origin of this word used in Medical English?
Latin
Old English
French
Other
110
Who didn´t belong to the democratic party?
Obama
Nixon
Kennedy
Clinton
111
How many intonation tunes are there in English?
5
3
2
4
112
The genitive case is mainly used when the owner is...
An object
A person
Both a person and an object
Either a person or an object
113
How many inches are in a foot?
10
15
12
6
114
Which one is not a broadsheet?
Daily Telegraph
Washington Post
Daily Mail
Wall Street Journal
115
"Groundhog day" is an example of...
Recurrent theme
Round theme
Topic extension
Lineal theme
116
The US constitution dates back from...
1787
1786
1788
1789
117
What´s the standard chime of NBC?
CEG
GEC
CEGG
GECG
118
When did the Berlin wall fall?
1979
1978
1988
1989
119
What´s Chomsky´s nationality?
Ukrainian
American
Israeli
British
120
Which one is a bare infinitive?
Refuse
Make
Manage
Offer
121
Which one is a Berliner?
The Sunday Telegraph
The Guardian
Financial Times
The New York Times
122
Who wrote "Half moon street"?
Elizabeth George
Agatha Christie
P. D. James
Anne Perry
123
Which one is not a book written by Steinbeck?
East of Eden
The sun also rises
Cannery row
Torilla flat
124
Which one is not an example of American TV?
ITV
PBS
NBC
ABC
125
The rose represents...
England
Wales
Scotland
Ireland
126
Object pronouns replace possessive adjectives in...
RP
Cockney
Brummy
Scouse
127
What was created by Arkwright?
Mule
Water frame
Spinning jenny
Flying shuttle
128
When was Queen Elizabeth II born?
1929
1928
1926
1927
129
Who is the Reform Movement linked to?
Fountas
Viëtor
Montaigne
Berlitz
130
Who wrote "Agnes Grey"?
Anne Brontë
Charlotte Brontë
None of the others
Emily Brontë
131
Who wrote "The rime of the ancient mariner"?
Wordsworth
Coleridge
William Blake
John Keats
132
Instructive texts make heavy use of...
Locutionary force
Both locutionary and illocutionary forces
Illocutionary force
Perlocutionary force
133
What does isochrony refer to?
Secondary stress
Primary stress
Word stress
Sentence stress
134
How many semi-vowels are there in English?
0
1
2
3
135
Which one is a compact?
The Independent
Financial Times
The Echo
The Times
136
Which one is not a book written by Poe?
Bartleby the scrivener
The pit and the pendulum
The black cat
The tell-tale heart
137
Regular plurals are pronounced /iz/ after...
Voiced non sibilant sounds
Voiceless non sibilant sounds
Sibilant sounds
Both sibilant and non sibilant sounds
138
How many sonnets are in Shakespeare´s "The sonnets"?
154
156
152
160
139
What phoneme is not fricative?
/θ/
/k/
/ʃ/
/ð/
140
When does the American president take oath?
February 19th
January 20th
February 20th
January 19th
141
William the conqueror was King Edward the confessor´s...
Son
Cousin
Nephew
Brother
142
Who is not known because mastering the "stream of consciousness" technique?
Henry James
James Joyce
Virginia Woolf
Walt Whitman
143
What was H. P. Grice´s nationality?
Australian
German
British
American
144
Who wrote "Gimme Shelter"?
Nigel Williams
Edward Bond
John Osborne
Barrie Keeffe
145
What are the names of Canale & Swain?
Michael & Anne
Michael & Merril
Michael & Eve
Michael & Elizabeth
146
Contrastive analysis is linked to...
Cognitivism
Behaviourism
Both Cognitivism and Behaviourism
Neither Cognitivism nor Behaviourism
147
How many vocalic phonemes are there in English?
10
5
12
11
148
When did Elizabeth II become queen?
1952
1951
1953
1950
149
Which one is not an English for Science and Technology description type?
Process
Functional
Physical
Compositional
150
Who wrote "Chronicles of Barsetshire"?
Joseph Conrad
William Thackeray
Rudyard Kipling
Anthony Trollope
151
Who wrote "Depiction on his mind"?
Elizabeth George
P. D. James
Agatha Christie
Anne Perry
152
Where was Goffman from?
Canada
Germany
USA
Britain
153
Which one is not a book written by Fitzgerald?
The great Gatsby
This side of paradise
The last tycoon
Sea of Cortez
154
"Veritas" is the motto of...
None
Oxford
Harvard
Cambridge
155
Where was Ferdinand de Saussaure born?
UK
Switzerland
USA
Germany
156
When was the Easter Rising?
1962
1916
1961
1926
157
What president suffered a palate cancer?
McKinley
Ulysses Grant
Woodrow Wilson
Grover Cleveland
158
Who wrote "Pamela"?
Jonathan Swift
Daniel Defoe
Henry Fielding
Samuel Richardson
159
How many textuality standards are there?
8
7
9
6
160
What is Paul Revere related to?
Midnight ride
Black Heritage trail
Emancipation proclamation
Gettysburg address
161
Which one is a bare infinitive?
Prepare
Let
Agree
Afford
162
Is conditional tense inflected in English?
No, unlike in Spanish.
No, unlike in Spanish and Valencian.
No, unlike in Valencian.
Yes, it is.
163
Who wrote "The conservationist"?
Nadine Gordimer
Doris Lessing
None of the others
E. M. Forster
164
Which one is not a book written by Mark Twain?
Life on the Mississippi
The miller´s tale
Roughing it
Tom Sawyer
165
Which one is not an example of Old English Pagan poetry?
The wife´s lament
The wanderer
Beowulf
The dream of the rood
166
According to backshift, past perfect turns into...
Past perfect
Past perfect continuous
Present perfect
Past simple
167
When was the Boston massacre?
March 5th
March 6th
May 5th
May 6th
168
How many Gricean maxims are there?
6
4
5
7
169
Where was Virginia Woolf born?
In Manchester
In London
In Birmingham
In Liverpool
170
Which one is not a bare anglicism?
Túnel
Club
Slogan
Golf
171
Prepositions can work as...
object
either subject or object
neither subject nor object
subject
172
Who wrote "Wuthering heights"?
None of the others
Emily Brontë
Charlotte Brontë
Anne Brontë
173
Who wrote "Waiting for Godot"?
William Golding
Tom Stoppard
Anthony Burgess
Samuel Beckett
174
What is not expressed using "in"?
Holiday seasons
Years
Seasons
Months
175
Instructive text is a subtype of...
Expository texts
Argumentative texts
Narrative texts
Descriptive texts
176
The daffodil represents...
England
Scotland
Wales
Ireland
177
What was created by Hargreaves?
Water frame
Flying shuttle
Spinning jenny
Mule
178
What accent is linked to London?
Brummie
Cockney
Mancky
Scouse
179
When is Halloween celebrated?
October 21st
October 26th
October 31st
October 28th
180
What country was Bloomfield born in?
Wales
USA
Scotland
England
181
"Before" is an adverb of...
Both time and space
Time
Neither time nor space
Space
182
What connector does not express concession?
Finally
However
Nonetheless
Although
183
What was Goffman´s name?
Irving
Edwin
Ervin
John
184
What play was not written by O´Casey?
The plough and the sky
Red roses for me
The star turns red
Juno and the paycock
185
What type of downtoner is "partly"?
Approximates
Compromisers
Minimishers
Diminishers
186
When is Guy Fawkes celebrated?
Novermber 1st
November 10th
November 6th
November 5th
187
Which one is not a cohesive element?
Ellipsis
Reference
Coherence
Substitution
188
What type of antonyms are "buy" and "sell"?
Strict
Loose
Complementary
Converse
189
What movie is not inspired by a Michael Crichton book?
The Shawshank redemption
Timeline
Congo
Jurassic park
190
Which one is not a type of negation?
Predication negation
Clause negation
Doubtful negation
Local negation
191
Which one is not a type of film adaptation?
Reinterpretation
Transfer
Inventive
Free adaptation
192
When did the man step on the moon?
1975
1969
1979
1965
193
How many language features did Charles Hockett study?
13
12
11
10
194
Where was Hemingway born?
California
Mississippi
Oak Park
St. Paul
195
Where is Abraham Lincoln buried?
NYC
Chicago
Washington
Springfield
196
When was the latest Scottish referendum held?
2011
2014
2012
2013
197
Who is Cognitivism linked to?
Pinnell
Krashen
Corder
Selinker
198
Who wrote "Rosencrantz and Guilderstern are dead"?
Anthony Burgess
Tom Stoppard
William Golding
Samuel Beckett
199
Which one refers to something outside the text?
Exophoric
Endophoric
Cataphoric
Anaphoric
200
Who wrote "Gulliver´s travels"?
Jonathan Swift
Samuel Richardson
Henry Fielding
Daniel Defoe